#MC56
1887
Recently matted, the drawings are in fine condition.
The two drawings are: Breakwater - Colombo - Ceylon ca. 10.5 x 19cm ( 4 x 7.5 inches); Harbour - Colombo - Ceylon ca. 11 x 19cm ( 4 x 7.5 inches).
"Although the British captured Colombo in 1796, it remained a British military outpost until the Kandyan Kingdom was ceded to them in 1815 and they made Colombo the capital of their newly created crown colony of British Ceylon. Unlike the Portuguese and Dutch before them, whose primary use of Colombo was as a military fort, the British began constructing houses and other civilian structures around the fort, giving rise to the current City of Colombo"(Wikipedia).
Two views of Colombo, Ceylon, are from an album of "Sketches made on a trip Round the World." By Edward Morrison de Courcy Short, b.1857, who attended Charterhouse School, Surrey (1870-6). He passed the Ceylon Civil Service exam in 1878, and in 1905 became Chairman of the Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo, retiring in 1910.
List of Carthusians, 1800-1879, by W.D. Parrish.
