No. 3. Sugar-loaf Hill, St Helena.
Drawn by James Wathen Esq.r. Arranged by E.W. Engraved by J. Clark.
London, 1821, Published for the Proprietor, by T. Clay, Ludgate Hill, Rob.t Jennings, Poultry, & In.o Major, Skinner Street.
Hand coloured aquatint. 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1821'. Small margins.
From James Wathen's 'A Series of Views Illustrative of the Island of St Helena'. This scene was used on a St Helena stamp in 1976. During a trip recorded as 'A Journal of a Voyage to Madras and China' (1814) Walthen spent three days on St Helena, during which time he made thirteen sketches. Two were included in his 'Journal'; with Napoleon's exile increasing the interest in St Helena, eight of the remainder were published here, with the addition of a plate of Longwood House, Napoleon's residence in exile, not built in Wathen's time.
Abbey Travel 314.
[Ref: 49609] £190.00
London, 1821, Published for the Proprietor, by T. Clay, Ludgate Hill, Rob.t Jennings, Poultry, & In.o Major, Skinner Street.
Hand coloured aquatint. 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1821'. Small margins.
From James Wathen's 'A Series of Views Illustrative of the Island of St Helena'. This scene was used on a St Helena stamp in 1976. During a trip recorded as 'A Journal of a Voyage to Madras and China' (1814) Walthen spent three days on St Helena, during which time he made thirteen sketches. Two were included in his 'Journal'; with Napoleon's exile increasing the interest in St Helena, eight of the remainder were published here, with the addition of a plate of Longwood House, Napoleon's residence in exile, not built in Wathen's time.
Abbey Travel 314.
[Ref: 49609] £190.00