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PENANG, MALAYA
William DANIELL (engraver). -- Captain Robert SMITH (artist). [View of Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticooose, Prince of Wale's Island; View of from Convalescent Bungalow, Prince of Wale's Island]
two hand-coloured aquatint plates from Smith's Panoramic Sketch of the Prince of Wale's [sic] Island and the Opposite Malayan Shore, published by William Daniell, 1821. both trimmed to edge of image area, the latter with small tear into image , window-mounted.
Penang, the earliest of the Straits Settlements, was granted by the King of Quedah to Captain Francis Light as dowry on his marriage to the King's daughter. At Light's suggestion the island was renamed Prince of Wales Island and made over by treaty to the East India Company in 1785, and in 1796 an area of the facing mainland (Province Wellesley) was added. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 525. (2)
William DANIELL (engraver). -- Captain Robert SMITH (artist). [View of Mount Erskine and Pulo Ticooose, Prince of Wale's Island; View of from Convalescent Bungalow, Prince of Wale's Island]
two hand-coloured aquatint plates from Smith's Panoramic Sketch of the Prince of Wale's [sic] Island and the Opposite Malayan Shore, published by William Daniell, 1821. both trimmed to edge of image area, the latter with small tear into image , window-mounted.
Penang, the earliest of the Straits Settlements, was granted by the King of Quedah to Captain Francis Light as dowry on his marriage to the King's daughter. At Light's suggestion the island was renamed Prince of Wales Island and made over by treaty to the East India Company in 1785, and in 1796 an area of the facing mainland (Province Wellesley) was added. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 525. (2)