File:The Salt Water Lake east of Calcutta crowded with boats with the city in the distance by Thomas Prinsep.jpg
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English: "The Salt Water Lake, east of Calcutta, crowded with boats, with the city in the distance," watercolour, circa 1827-1828, by the Anglo-Indian artist Thomas Prinsep. Inscribed on album page: "Salt Water Lake. c.1827-8, Hollowed date trees as canoes, The Sunderbund wood boats, Calcutta in extreme distance." Thomas Prinsep was in charge of the surveying of the Sunderbunds, a large area of fresh and salt water mangrove swamps in Bengal. In December 1828 Thomas Prinsep published a survey of his work entitled 'A Survey of the Salt Lake or Marshes Adjoining Calcutta." Prinsep died in 1830 of a riding accident. Image courtesy of the British Library, London. |
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