British Men-o'war saluting a departing Two-decker from their Anchorage at Fort William in the Hooghly River, Calcutta

The directors of the East India Company commissioned the artists George Lambert and Samuel Scott to paint six oils of the Company's settlements for the Director's Court Room at East India House in London. These are now in the India Office Library. This lot is a copy of the earliest known picture of Calcutta. Behind the ships can be seen the Fort with its two lines of ramparts protecting Government House, the spire of St. Anne's Church, and the tower on Long Row.