College de l'Evique á Calcutta. Bishop's College, Calcutta. c1834

by D'Urville, Dumont

Antique print of Bishop's College, an Anglican educational establishment founded in 1820 by Thomas Fanshawe Middleton, the first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta.

Original engraving circa 1835 for Voyages Pittoresque Autour de Monde (Picturesque Voyages Around the World), which comprised a general resume of discoveries from the voyages of Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver, D'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders, Krunsenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Paulding, Beechey, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, B.Morrel, Dumont d'Urville, etc., Dumont d'Urville.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), was a French naval officer who combined engravings from the drawings of his official expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887), with sketches and engravings from previous voyages (notably those from Captain Cook's third voyage between 1776 and 1780).

Most of the engravings were printed two on a page, one above the other, as with this one. This the upper half of a page. The page measures 265 x 175mm (approximately 10.5 x 7 inches). This half page measures 120 x 175mm (4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches).