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Madras
This lithograph depicts an East Indiaman off the coast of Madras (now Chennai). The city’s lighthouse – a tall column erected in 1841 and operated until 1894 – is visible on the left. The Fort of St George appears in the centre of the image, behind the ship. In the foreground is a small boat containing two figures with pointed hats.
The print was plate 8, titled ‘Madras’, in John Corbet Anderson’s ‘To India and Back by the Cape, By a Traveller’, printed for the author in 1858. Anderson’s book was a self-published guidebook for travellers to India, featuring eighteenth lithographic plates including views of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Madras [Chennai], Calcutta [Kolkata], Bombay [Mumbai], Mauritius, Madeira, Tristan da Cunha and the Cape Peninsula.
The print was plate 8, titled ‘Madras’, in John Corbet Anderson’s ‘To India and Back by the Cape, By a Traveller’, printed for the author in 1858. Anderson’s book was a self-published guidebook for travellers to India, featuring eighteenth lithographic plates including views of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Madras [Chennai], Calcutta [Kolkata], Bombay [Mumbai], Mauritius, Madeira, Tristan da Cunha and the Cape Peninsula.
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Object details
| ID: | PAD1847 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Anderson, John Corbet |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Date made: | 1858 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 241 mm x 309 mm |