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The Mauritius
This lithograph depicts an East Indiaman at sea off the coast of Mauritius with Port Louis in the background. Inscribed beneath the image, ‘The Mauritius’.
The print was plate 6 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 6 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: | PAD6779 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Anderson, John Corbet |
| Date made: | 1858 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 228 mm x 280 mm |