Mytilene
[Edward Morrison de Courcy Short]
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 95 x 195mm. 3¾ x 7¾".
A view of Mytilene, the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos. 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: 11259] £150.00
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 95 x 195mm. 3¾ x 7¾".
A view of Mytilene, the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos. 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: 11259] £150.00