‘A proper set of views’: The British East India Company and the Eighteenth-Century Visualization of South-East Asia
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In the churchyard of St Mary’s, Rotherhithe, stands the substantial tomb of Lee Boo, the first Palauan Islander to visit Britain, who died of smallpox at the home of Captain Henry Wilson in Paradise Row, Rotherhithe, on 27 December 1784. The tomb and its inscription, composed by no less a figure than Brook Watson, the merchant and celebrated subject of John Singleton Copley’s recent (1778) painting Watson and the Shark , were erected at the expense of ‘the Honourable United East India Company’, as the inscription states: as a Testimony of Esteem for the humane and kind Treatment afforded by his Father to the Crew of their Ship the Antelope , Captain Wilson, which was wrecked off that Island in the Night of the 9th of August 1783. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Geoff Quilley
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2209266616