'Outer anchorage in a calm, Mazatlan [Mexico], Augt 17th 1850'

No. 42 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. For the circumstances of Fanshawe and the 'Daphne', shown at anchor here, being at Mazatlan on the Mexican Pacific coast (15 August- 9 October 1850), see PAI4648. In 1879 a lighthouse (El Faro) was built on the conical hill shown. Fanshawe did three views at Mazatlan in 1850 (PAI4648 - PAI4650) and one in 1851 (PAI4699).

Object Details

ID: PAI4649
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 17 Aug 1850
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 126 x 178 mm
Parts: Album of watercolours of Madeira, Brazil, the Falkland and Pacific Islands, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Vancouver, and California (Album)
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