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Creator:
Wathen, James.
Title(s):

Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

Additional Title(s):

Wathen's Voyage to Madras, China, &c

Voyage to Madras, China, &c

Published/Created:
London : Printed for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley [etc.] 1814.
Physical Description:
xx, 246 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS412 .W38 1814+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS412 .W38 1814+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1322400
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Spine title, on publisher's printed label: Wathen's Voyage to Madras, China, &c. Price £3, 3s. boards.
Colored aquatints by J. Clark; after James Wathen.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 517
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in gilt-tooled polished calf; bound by Zaehnsdorf. Plates are hand-colored. Copy 2 bound in original quarter green cloth and brown paper boards, with publisher's printed spine label. Plates are uncolored. Bookplate: Egremont.
Subject Terms:
China -- Description and travel.
East Indies -- Description and travel.
J. Nichols, Son -- Publisher.
Madras (India) -- Description and travel.
Voyages and travels.
Zaehnsdorg -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Travel literature.
Aquatints -- 1814.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1814.
Contributors:
Clark, J., fl. 1789-1830, engraver.
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  • New Custom House
  • Fort St. George
  • Great Pagoda
  • 1st view from the Great Pagoda
  • 2nd view looking N. from the Pagoda
  • Fort and scenery near Chingleput
  • Bramin's tomb
  • George Town
  • Dr. Mackinnon's residence
  • View, looking over George Town, to the Queeda coast
  • Mr. Amee's house and mill
  • Mallacca, with the Hope at anchor in the roads
  • Ancient gateway, leading to the water, at Malacca
  • Franciscan monastery at Macoa
  • Church of St. Lazarus near Macoa
  • Camoen's Cave
  • Macoa, with the Church of St Antonio, from Camoen's Garden
  • Anson's Bay
  • View looking up the Tigris
  • China Street
  • Banqueting room at a Mandarin's house --View of the Bocca Tigris
  • Coll. Doveton's house
  • James Town, St. Helena.

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