Author: MADRAS- CHENNAI.
Title: Fort St. George on the Coromandel Coast. Belonging to the East India Company of England. - Le fort St. George sur la cote de Coromandel. Appartemante a la Compagnie Angloise des Indes Orientales.
Description: London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794.Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) after I. van Ryne, with legend in English and French. Ca. 26 x 40 cm.Fine bird's-eye view from offshore of the fort in Madras, now Chennai, with many ships in the foreground. 'Madras was the Company's first fortified settlement in India; the construction of Fort St George began in 1640 and continued on and off for another 150 years. It houses all the administrative and military necessities, as well as St Mary's church (the oldest Anglican church in India), finished in 1680. The Old College, the equivalent of the Writers' Building in Calcutta, was one of the Company's few eighteenth-century buildings in the gothic style, and still stands' (Wild, The East India Company, p.52). Rare view of the first major English settlement in India and the foundation stone of Chennai - Some foxing otherwise fine.
Keywords: Asia India VOC Dutch East India Company VOC India prints prints india prints optica
Title: Fort St. George on the Coromandel Coast. Belonging to the East India Company of England. - Le fort St. George sur la cote de Coromandel. Appartemante a la Compagnie Angloise des Indes Orientales.
Description: London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794.Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) after I. van Ryne, with legend in English and French. Ca. 26 x 40 cm.Fine bird's-eye view from offshore of the fort in Madras, now Chennai, with many ships in the foreground. 'Madras was the Company's first fortified settlement in India; the construction of Fort St George began in 1640 and continued on and off for another 150 years. It houses all the administrative and military necessities, as well as St Mary's church (the oldest Anglican church in India), finished in 1680. The Old College, the equivalent of the Writers' Building in Calcutta, was one of the Company's few eighteenth-century buildings in the gothic style, and still stands' (Wild, The East India Company, p.52). Rare view of the first major English settlement in India and the foundation stone of Chennai - Some foxing otherwise fine.
Keywords: Asia India VOC Dutch East India Company VOC India prints prints india prints optica
Price: EUR 962.50 = appr. US$ 1046.09 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 26413
- Book number: 26413