The Rev.t Tho.s Thomason, A.M. Chaplain to the Hon.ble East India Company,
Painted by Hume, Esq.r Calcutta. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A. Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London Published April 12 1830, by L.B. Seeley & Sons, 169 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Some soiling of margins.
A half-length portrait of Rev.d Thomas Truebody Thomason (1774-1829), in ecclesiastical robes and bands. In 1808 he accepted a post in Bengal, where he became a student of Indian languages and culture, a promoter of Indian education, a noted churchman and chaplain to Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Governor-General of India. His wife, Elizabeth (neé Fawcett), founded the European Female Orphanage, Calcutta. Their son James Thomason (1804–1853) was lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces of India from 1843 to 1853, when he was appointed governor of Madras, although he died before he could assume the post.
Whitman 555, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66145] £140.00
London Published April 12 1830, by L.B. Seeley & Sons, 169 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Some soiling of margins.
A half-length portrait of Rev.d Thomas Truebody Thomason (1774-1829), in ecclesiastical robes and bands. In 1808 he accepted a post in Bengal, where he became a student of Indian languages and culture, a promoter of Indian education, a noted churchman and chaplain to Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Governor-General of India. His wife, Elizabeth (neé Fawcett), founded the European Female Orphanage, Calcutta. Their son James Thomason (1804–1853) was lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces of India from 1843 to 1853, when he was appointed governor of Madras, although he died before he could assume the post.
Whitman 555, state ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66145] £140.00