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    Image number: RS.10735
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    ‘Tomb of Colonel Cathcart in the Fort of Anjerie’

    Date
    1806
    Creator
    Thomas Medland (1755 - 1827, British) , Engraver
    After
    William Alexander (1767 - 1816, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    26670
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 212mm
    width (print): 276mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape showing part of the Dutch Fort at Anjerie Point on Java, Indonesia with a cannon emplacement. In the foreground is the headstone for the grave of Lt Colonel Charles Cathcart, the first British envoy to China who died of tuberculosis en route.

    Plate 9 from the book A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793...to which is annexed an account of a journey, made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation...southern Africa...by John Barrow (London, 1806).

    Printed below: “Drawn by W.Alexander Engraved by T.Medland Tomb of Colonel Cathcart in the Fort of Anjerie. Published June 4, 1806, by Messrs.Cadell & Davies, Strand, London”.

    John Barrow’s voyage to southern Vietnam (Cochinchina) was undertaken as the preliminary to Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China. Marcartney’s miison replaced that of Charles Cathcart.

    John Barrow (1764-1848) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > Indonesia
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