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James Wales: View from Belmont   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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James Wales  (1747–1795)  wikidata:Q6144995
 
Description Scottish-British painter
Date of birth/death 1747 Edit this at Wikidata 1795 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Peterhead
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artist QS:P170,Q6144995
Title
View from Belmont
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: Plate 8 from James Wales' 'Bombay Views'.


This is plate 8 from James Wales' 'Bombay Views'. The series was painted for Sir Charles Malet (1752-1815), the British Resident of Poona, who Wales met in Bombay in 1791.

The collective title is derived from a volume of letterpress published the same year: Bombay views. Twelve views of the island of Bombay and its vicinity : taken in the years 1791 and 1792 : designed and engraved on the spot by James Wales : and brought to this country by Sir Charles Warre Malet, to whom they are respectfully dedicated. London.

The view shows the islands of Bombay, part of the village of Mazagaon, and the Mahratta mountains in the background. The top of Belvidere House and Cross Island are on the left; to the right is Fort George. Ships are pictured at anchor in the harbour. Across the water is Chaul and the Kanheri.

Item number: 8
Depicted place Mumbai
Date 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Etching, coloured
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X436(8)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000436u00008000.html
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