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Bunder Deelum, in the Persian Gulf, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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Bunder Deelum, in the Persian Gulf, 1857. The accompanying view of one of the numerous forts in the Persian Gulf has been sketched from the deck of the Hon. East India Company's steam-vessel Berenice by Assistant Surgeon L. S. Bruce, H.C.S. It affords a good specimen of the forts of the coast, as well as a view of the mountain scenery. Mr. Binning, in his "Journal of Two Years' Travel," just published, describes the coast of Persia as now presenting no view but sterile, barren, and desolate chains of rocks and hills; and the general aspect of the Gulf is dismal and forbidding. Moore's charming allusions to Osman's Sea, with its: "Banks of pearl and palmy isles", are, unfortunately, quite visionary, for uglier or more unpicturesque scenery our traveller never beheld'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_399

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NA

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Droits gérés

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18,7Mo (1,4Mo) / 33,0cm x 14,2cm / 3892 x 1677 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Indian Ocean ocean sea coast building Asia fort coastal mountain mountains Middle East country British geography color fortifications fortification war location century Britain newspapers press Iran Iranian concept B&W engraved engraving Persian Gulf Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W Persian Persia white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN Anglo-Persian War newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century L. S. Bruce Bruce L. S.