Sujet

The Custom-House and inner harbour, Colombo, Ceylon, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Custom-House and inner harbour, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka], 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Slinn and Co. 'The European capital of Ceylon is not, indeed, a place of much maritime traffic, its port affording shelter to none but light native vessels, while the larger ships which anchor in the offing are exposed to disasters from the violence of the monsoons. It was to the vicinity of the cinnamon-gardens that Colombo owed its selection by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, and by the Dutch, whose Government was there established at a later date. Coffee, which has now become a more considerable article of Ceylon produce than cinnamon, finds its way to Galle or Trincomalee, and those towns will henceforth supersede Colombo, both in commercial and political importance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A14_493

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

23,4Mo (1,9Mo) / 32,9cm x 17,8cm / 3887 x 2104 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Indian Ocean ocean sea boat boats arts finance harbour art trade port ship ships British geography Sri Lanka color wharf docks dock location century empire Britain newspapers press export print B&W South Asia engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships Colour 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Colombo white and black Custom House nineteenth century raw materials The Print Collector British Empire geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century S. Slinn & Co. Slinn S. & Co. W.L.H. Skeen & Co Skeen W.L.H. & Co