Queenstown Harbour, Ireland.
[Edward Morrison de Courcy Short]
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 85 x 195mm. 3¼ x 7¾".
A view of the harbour in Cobh (then Queenstown), Ireland. From an album of 'sketches made on a trip round the world'. By Edward Morrison de Courcy Short, b.1857, who attended Charterhouse School, Surrey (1870-6). He passed the Ceylon Civil Service exam in 1878, and in 1905 became Chairman of the Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo, retiring in 1910.
List of Carthusians, 1800-1879, by W.D. Parrish
[Ref: 11236] £65.00
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 85 x 195mm. 3¼ x 7¾".
A view of the harbour in Cobh (then Queenstown), Ireland. From an album of 'sketches made on a trip round the world'. By Edward Morrison de Courcy Short, b.1857, who attended Charterhouse School, Surrey (1870-6). He passed the Ceylon Civil Service exam in 1878, and in 1905 became Chairman of the Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo, retiring in 1910.
List of Carthusians, 1800-1879, by W.D. Parrish
[Ref: 11236] £65.00