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[Views in S.t Helena.]
[Views in S.t Helena.] N.º 1. S.t Helena from Sea. [&] N.º 2. The Roads, S.t Helena. [&] N.º 3. Scene Taken from the Castle Terrace. [&] N.º 4. Plantation House, The Country Residence of the Governor. [&] N.º 5. The Friar Rock in Friars Valley. [&] N.º 6. The Column Lotd, Fair Land, Sandy Bay.
Drawn by George Hutchins Bellasis Esq.r. Engraved by Rob.t Havell. 3, Chapel S.t Tottenham Court Road.
London, Published Nov.r 1. 1815, by G.H. Bellais Esq.r.
Complete set of six aquatints, printed in colour and hand finished. Each plate 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16¼"), one plate watermarked 'J Whatman 1811, large margins. Mount burn around images, stitch holes in right margins.
George Hutchins Bellasis (1778-1822), a captain in the 19th Reg.t of Light Dragoons, first visited St Helena in 1804 when he was returning from Bombay (where he had met the future Duke of Wellington. Severe illness made him leave his ship, the Elphinstone, and remain eight months on the island recuperating. He published a view of the Roads in 1806. In 1812 he briefly returned to the island, before publishing this portfolio of six ‘Views of St. Helena’ in 1815, which he dedicated to Wellington. Just over a fornight after these plates were published Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St Helena.
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