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| Keywords: View of Chittagong c.1825, showing the Washing Green. From an album compiled with his brother William.jpg en Watercolour by Thomas Prinsep 1800-1830 of a view of Chittagong in Bangladesh dated c 1825 This image from an album compiled with his brother William shows the washing green where cloths were laid out to dry in the sun and is inscribed in the original sketch book 'Chittagong looking inland' Thomas was in charge of the surveying of the Sunderbunds; a large area of fresh and saltwater mangrove swamp in Bengal covering sixty to eighty miles and consisting of flat marshy islands covered with dense forests inhabited by crocodiles and forming the final retreat of the Bengal Tiger In 1826 after the outbreak of the First Burmese War he was sent to Chittagong formerly in East Bengal 1890 http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000004100u00000000 html British Library Thomas Prinsep 1800-1830 other versions Custom license marker 2015 03 15 PD-BAngladesh PD-Old Uploaded with UploadWizard Uncategorized 2015 March 15 | ||||
