General
General
Object Auto ID
78633
Alternate Codes
230968
Common Name
Engraving
Classified Name
Local Name
The lighthouse, Cape Agulhas; Collection of engravings
Quantity
1.00
Object Description
The Parliament Collection:
Engraving of front elevation of lighthouse at Cape Agulhas placed centrally in the composition. Printed image cut out from elsewhere and glued down in this album. (Part of a portfolio, see 6538)
Provenance
Mendelssohn Bequest 1922
Description
Description
Technique Types
Inscriptions
1. Below image printed "The Light House now (1847) building at Cape Agulhus". Above that in smaller script C C M del. & sc. 2. On separate small piece of paper glued down below the work written in pencil: "Designed and engraved by C C Michell L. Col R E [Royal Engineers] Surveyor General & Civil Engineers."
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Dimension Comments
Individual images glued down in an album. In a phase box.; Image size 125 x 96 mm
History
History
Object Age Comment
1847
Maker Comment
MICHELL, Charles Cornwallis, 1793-1851
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