A hand-coloured aquatint scene of Burma Rangoon.?'View of the Lake and Park of the Eastern Road from Rangoon taken from the advance of the 7th Madras Native infantry.'?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).