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H. Salt, Twenty-four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt

Etching and Aquatint
1809 (printed)
Artist/Maker
William Miller (publisher)
Henry Salt (artist)
Daniel Havell (engraver)
Place of origin
Britain (printed)

Coloured aquatints, with additional colouring by hand, preserved in a portfolio. Each plate lettered with title, plate number, name of engraver, ‘Drawn By Henry Salt.’ and, variously, ‘Published as the Act directs by William Miller, Albemarle Street’.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Etching and aquatint
Titles
  • H. Salt, Twenty-four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt (series title)
  • The Pass Of Atbara In Abyssinia (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Coloured aquatints, with additional colouring by hand
Paper
Aquatint
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
Coloured aquatint depicting the pass of Atbarah in Abyssinia (modern day Sudan), from a portfolio of loose plates (9 from a set of 24) after drawings by Henry Salt, from the plate volume of 'H. Salt, Twenty-four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt', 2 volumes. Great Britain, 1809.
Physical description
Coloured aquatints, with additional colouring by hand, preserved in a portfolio. Each plate lettered with title, plate number, name of engraver, ‘Drawn By Henry Salt.’ and, variously, ‘Published as the Act directs by William Miller, Albemarle Street’.
Dimensions
  • Printed surface of plates height: 47.6 cm
  • Width: 60.3cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subject depicted
Passes
Places depicted
Abyssinia
Sudan
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SP.537:5

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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