Alexandretta
[Edward Morrison de Courcy Short]
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 90 x 210mm. 3½ x 8¼".
A view of Iskenderun (formerly Alexandretta), a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 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: 11256] £90.00
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 90 x 210mm. 3½ x 8¼".
A view of Iskenderun (formerly Alexandretta), a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 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: 11256] £90.00