IMAGE
Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Chapter V. Ceylon. Chapter VI. Burmah. [March 1887]
- Date
- 1887
- Reference
- E-022-q-046
- Description
On the left, a buddhist priest holding a sun umbrella is being offered food by a woman outside her house in Kandy, Ceylon. The frame of the picture is decorated with flowers of a climber.
On the left: The caves near Moulmein, Rangoon. View from inside the cave looking out to the plain below, showing a buddha and stupa at the entrance. The frame is decorated with a sprig of [frangipani?] on the upper lefthandside
The left-hand view was published without the square frame and flower decoration as a wood engraving in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, page 99, without a title. The right-hand view was published as a chromolithograph chapter-heading entitled Rangoon on page 119.
Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage".
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath images (in red ink) titles
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Two ink and wash, on sheet 210 x 308 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Wash drawings, Two ink and wash, on sheet 210 x 308 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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