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Panoramic view from the lighthouse, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

(c. 1837 British)

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Panoramic view from the lighthouse, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Artist(s): PATRICK LYSAGHT (born c.1800)
Medium: pencil, pen and ink, and grey wash
Signed: Signed beneath image (l.l.) ‘P. Lysaght Private 78th Highlanders’ Inscribed at centre beneath image ‘PANORAMA, FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE, COLOMBO / CEYLON’. Also inscribed along the parapet ‘WEST’, ‘EAST’ and ‘SOUTH’
Dimensions: 34.50inch wide   14.25inch high (87.63 cm wide  36.19 cm high)
Description:

The lighthouse in the old fort at Colombo, located at the junction of Chatham Street and Janadhipathi Mawatha, dates from the 1820s; it was converted into a clock tower in 1860. The British Library (OIOS) holds a series of eight watercolour views of Colombo by Patrick Lysaght (WD 3844-3851), several of them dated 1837, which may be the date of this picture also.