Title
A VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND COUNCIL CHAMBER MADRAS = VUE DE L'HOTEL DU GOUVERNEMENT ET DU CONSEIL A_ MADRAS : To the Right Honble Edward Clive Earl of Powis, Late Governor of Fort St George in the East Indies. This Engraving is most respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's devoted & most obedient servt Edwd Orme : Au Tre_s Honorable Edouard Clive Comte de Powis Ancien gouverneur du Fort St Georges dans les Indes Orientales. Cette gravure est de_diee avec respect le tre_s de_voue_ Serviteur de Sa Seigneurie Edwd Orme. / From an Original Drawing made on the spot ; Edwd Orme excudit ; H Merke sculp.
Creator
Merke, Henri, printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : Published Jany 19 1807 by Edwd Orme No 59 Bond Street, London, [January 19 1807]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; platemark 52.4 x 68.8 cm, on sheet 55 x 74.3 cm
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 pediment 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. Titles have been cut out from a different print and stuck down. Beneath these stuck down titles reads, in engraved script: 'To the right Honourable Edward Clive earl of Powis, Viscount Clive of Ludlow, Baron Herbert of Cherbury Salop, Baron Powis of Powis Castle, Baron Clive of Plassey Ireland, Baron Clive of Walcot Salop and late governor of fort St George in the East Indies' and 'Au tres honourable Edward Clive du Powis, Vicomte Clive de Ludlow, Baron Herbert de Cherbury, Comte_ de Salop, Baron Powis Castle, Baron Clive de Palsey en Irelande, Baron Clive de Walcot, Comte_ de Salop, ancien Gouverneur du Fort S. Georges, dans les Indes Orientales'. The dedication and printmaker information the same on both sheets. Coat of arms with the motto 'AUDACTER ET SINCERE' between the two titles.
Place
Chennai (India)
Other persons
Orme, Edward, artist, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.115.79.b.