Twelve select views of the seat of war : including views taken at Rangoon, Cachar and Andaman Islands / from sketches taken on the spot by J. Grierson, Esq. ; drawn on stone by E. Billon and printed at the Asiatic Lithographic Press.

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Grierson, J., Twelve select views of the seat of war , 1825

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Creator:: Grierson, J.
Title(s):: Twelve select views of the seat of war : including views taken at Rangoon, Cachar and Andaman Islands / from sketches taken on the spot by J. Grierson, Esq. ; drawn on stone by E. Billon and printed at the Asiatic Lithographic Press.
Additional Title(s):: Views of the Burmese War
Published/Created:: Calcutta : [Asiatic Lithographic Press], 1825.
Physical Description:: [27] leaves : illustrations ; 33 x 47 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2022 55
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3331621
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Lithographed throughout.
Issued by publisher in brown paper-covered boards, with vignette on front cover, incorporating wording practically illegible, but which may be: "Views on the N.E. Frontier of [Burma?], the Andaman Islands & Rangoon, drawn up on stone by E. Billon from drawings taken on the spot by G. Grierson, Calcutta, April 18."
Includes list of subscribers on leaf [2] and "Apology to subscribers" on leaf [3].
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 403
BAC Folio A 2022 55: The Abbey copy. Plates are not colored. In publisher's binding.
Subject Terms:: Andaman Islands (India) -- Pictorial works.
Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824–1826 -- Pictorial works.
Cāchār (India) -- Pictorial works.
Port Cornwallis (North Andaman island) -- Pictorial works
Rangoon (Burma) -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:: Lithography.
Contributors:: Billon, E. (Emile), 1799–1873, lithographer.
Asiatic Lithographic Press (Calcutta, India), publisher, printer.
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Plates: View in Cachar
Fort and entrenched position at Budderpore
The stockade at Telayn in Cachar
Port Cornwallis
Rangoon from the river
A pagoda near Rangoon
View on the road to the Great Pagoda
View from the late Major Canning's residence
View on a lake near Rangoon
IInd view on a lake near Rangoon
The Great Pagoda at Rangoon
The Great Pagoda from within the area.

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