Dagon pagoda, near Rangoon, Burma. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.

  • Kershaw, James.
Date:
[1831]
Reference:
28151i
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Views in the Burman Empire
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London (Cornhill) : Smith, Elder and Co., [1831]

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1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 35 x 47.7 cm.

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Dagon Pagoda, near Rangoon, taken from the Linesof His Majesty's 13th & 38th Reg[imen]ts ; drawn on the spot by Capt. Kershaw 13th Light Infantry

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2 406.3
The letterpress volume has a note on the third page which begins : "The accompanying Views in the Burman Empire are confined wholly to the delineation of such places and scenery as, from their importance or beauty, became familiar to the invading force in their advance from Rangoon towards the capital."

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Wellcome Collection 28151i

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