A hand-coloured aquatint scene of Burma Rangoon. 'View of the Great Dragon Pagoda at Rangoon and scenery adjacent to the Westward of the Great road'?Drawn by J.Moore. Published Nov 9 1825 by Kingsbury and Co & Thomas Clay, London. Engraved by H.Pyall. in Teak frame glazed - 65cm x 55cm?
Moore served as a lieutenant in the 89th Regiment during the First Anglo - Burmese War (1824-1826) and provided the first ever pictorial of Burma by a British artist seen by the wider British Public.?
From the collection of British entrepreneur Felix Dennis (1947-2014).