After Henry Salt (1780-1827)

After Henry Salt (1780-1827)

Calcutta (Abbey 515, no.4)

hand-coloured aquatint, by D.Havell after Henry Salt, May 1809, from Twenty-four Views. in St.Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, published by William Miller (London, 1809), framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame, light surface soiling, unobtrusive surface abrasions to paper along margin lines

I.510 x 685mm.

One of a series of fine plates produced from drawings by Salt, made when he accompanied George Annesley, Viscount Valenia (later Mountnorris) as his secretary and draughtsman on an eastern tour which included the first British mission to Abyssinia. Salt's original drawings remained in Valentia's possession, and after Salt's death the plates too became his property.