Description
On stone below image: Horsburgh Lighthouse. October 1851. T. Picken lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. Singapore straits Barbukit hill false Barbukit China Sea. J.M. Richardson 23 Cornhill London; on mount in ink: Pharos ego cum nomen prÊbunt Horsburgh hydrgraphus in maribus Indo Sinicus prÊter omnes prÊclarus AngliÊ Mercatorumnisa imprimis indole Ex- empermopibus Anglo-Indici denique constructa Saluti nautarum insignis viri memoriÊ Consulo AD MDCCCLI W.J. Butterworth C.B. Prov. Malacc. PrÊf. J.T. Thomson Arch.t
Provenance
Lennel Trust.
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].