Title
A VIEW OF THE ISLAND OF SAINT HELENA : To the Honble the Court of Directors of the East India Company This Engraving is respectfully inscribed by their Honours devoted obliged & obedient Servant Edwd Orme. / H. Bellasis del. ; Edwd. Orme Excut. ; J. Clark & J. Hamble sculpt.
Creator
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770-1863, printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : Published & Sold June 4th. 1806, by Edwd. Orme, Printseller to His Majesty, Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street London., [June 4 1806]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; sheet 59.7 x 83.1 cm
Description
View with the harbour town at the foot of mountains with a walled road snaking up around them and a church to right of centre and a fortress on a clifftop in the extreme right, seen from the see with two figates on the right and a small sailing boat to left; with two small views to either side of the inscription below, of 'Fairy Land a View from the Island' to left and 'The Friars Rock with a View from the Island' to right.
Place
Saint Helena
Other persons
Orme, Edward, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.117.131.e.