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OSCAR MALLITTE (1829-1905)
Port Blair
Dec 1857Jan 1858Albumen print | 13.2 x 21.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2935013
Photograph of an area of sea with a spit of land with trees on entering from the right. In the centre left of the background is a densely wooded piece of land.
Port Blair was re-named Port Cornwallis, after the Royal Naval officer Admiral William Cornwallis (1744-1819), and was established as a naval base and penal colony by the British during the 1790s. Oscar Mallitte was part of a British survey party to the Andaman Islands (off the east coast of India) which was tasked with establishing another penal colony for Indian convicts following the Indian Uprising. The party, led by Frederic John Mouat, a British surgeon, landed at Port Cornwallis on 11 December 1857.
Port Blair was re-named Port Cornwallis, after the Royal Naval officer Admiral William Cornwallis (1744-1819), and was established as a naval base and penal colony by the British during the 1790s. Oscar Mallitte was part of a British survey party to the Andaman Islands (off the east coast of India) which was tasked with establishing another penal colony for Indian convicts following the Indian Uprising. The party, led by Frederic John Mouat, a British surgeon, landed at Port Cornwallis on 11 December 1857.
Creator(s)
Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905) (photographer)
13.2 x 21.7 cm (image)
28.8 x 33.2 cm (mount)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1858, probably from Lady Canning
Subject(s)
- Places
- Asia
- India
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Port Blair [Andaman Islands]
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- India
- Asia
- Geography
- Physiography
- Beaches
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
