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Henry Salt (1780-1827)
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Henry Salt (1780-1827)

Town of Dixan in Abyssinia

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Henry Salt (1780-1827)
Town of Dixan in Abyssinia
inscribed 'Town of Dixan in Abyssinia N15' on the reverse
watercolour on paper
16 7/8 x 21 3/8in. (42.9 x 54.3cm.)
刻印
by D.Havell in H.Salt, Twenty-four Views in St.Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, London, 1809, no. XVII ('The drawings for this work were made when Salt accompanied Lord Valentia as his secretary on the first British mission to Abyssinia, sent to conclude an alliance to obtain a port in the Red Sea in case France, under Napoleon, should seize Egypt (Maggs). Salt's drawings were also used for the sixty-nine engravings in the account of the mission published by Bulmer in 1809,...The drawings for both publications became the property of Lord Valentia.' Abbey, II, 515, p.471).
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