No. 6. View from High Knoll, 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.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Small margins. Bit messy on left margin.
View from High Knoll Fort, looking inland. From 'A Series of Views Illustrative of the Island of St Helena' by James Wathen (1751?-1828). 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: 49612] £160.00
London, 1821, Published for the Proprietor, by T. Clay, Ludgate Hill, Rob.t Jennings, Poultry, & In.o Major, Skinner Street.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"). Small margins. Bit messy on left margin.
View from High Knoll Fort, looking inland. From 'A Series of Views Illustrative of the Island of St Helena' by James Wathen (1751?-1828). 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: 49612] £160.00