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Tristan da Cunha
This lithograph depicts an East Indiaman at sea with the island of Tristan da Cunha in the distance. Inscribed beneath the image, ‘Tristan da Cunha’.
The print was plate 5 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 5 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: | PAD2040 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Anderson, John Corbet |
| Places: | Tristan da Cunha; Indian Ocean |
| Date made: | 1858 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 240 mm x 310 mm |