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Ascension
This lithograph depicts an East Indiaman at sea with Ascension Island in the distance. Inscribed beneath the image with the title, ‘Ascension’.
The print was plate 16 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 16 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: | PAD2025 |
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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: 243 mm x 310 mm |