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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.4345
Title: Object: A View of the Government House and Council Chamber Madras
Description: View of a group of large neo-classical building with men ascending steps lined by soldiers to one with a peaked roof and decorated triangular dediment to the right, seen from a lawn with people including some carrying a box and a man riding on a camel near a group sitting around another box in the left foreground. 1807 Hand-coloured aquatint with some etching
Producer name: Print made by: Henri Merke; Published by: Edward Orme
School/style
Production date: 1807
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: aquatint; etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 435 millimetres (image); Height: 506 millimetres (sheet); Width: 655 millimetres (image); Width: 681 millimetres (sheet)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See also 1917,1208.4344 and 4330, related prints. Not in Abbey
Location: Not on display
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Chennai (Madras)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.4345
Conservation

Free entry