Port Louis. (from the Offing)
Drawn on Stone by W.m Rider from the Original by T. Bradshaw Esq.r. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Pub.d for the Proprietor, Nov.r 1st 1831, by Mess.rs Carpenter. Old Bond St.
Lithograph with faint hand colour. Sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"), large margins.
A view of Mauritius from the sea, plate 4 of 40 in Thomas Bradshaw's 'Views in the Mauritius, or Isle of France'. Thomas Bradshaw was Auditor-General of Mauritius. Although he was regarded as one of the best artists to visit Mauritius up to that time, as a civil servant he was wanting: a report from August 1826 speaks of him in unflattering terms: ''An idle and inefficient public officer, not worthy to be the auditor-general''.
Abbey: 298.
[Ref: 58111] £320.00
Pub.d for the Proprietor, Nov.r 1st 1831, by Mess.rs Carpenter. Old Bond St.
Lithograph with faint hand colour. Sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"), large margins.
A view of Mauritius from the sea, plate 4 of 40 in Thomas Bradshaw's 'Views in the Mauritius, or Isle of France'. Thomas Bradshaw was Auditor-General of Mauritius. Although he was regarded as one of the best artists to visit Mauritius up to that time, as a civil servant he was wanting: a report from August 1826 speaks of him in unflattering terms: ''An idle and inefficient public officer, not worthy to be the auditor-general''.
Abbey: 298.
[Ref: 58111] £320.00