Tunis

Location

Country: Tunisia
City: Tunis
Place: British Embassy

Samuel Davenport’s print published in 1830, is largely based on John Keyse Sherwin’s A General View of Tunis published in 1775 (also in the Government Art Collection). Sherwin’s print was originally published in George Millar’s ambitious work The New and Universal System of Geography: Being a Complete History and Description of the Whole World. This book aimed to provide the reader with ‘a particular, full, accurate, circumstantial and entertaining Account 'of everything from the geographical features of countries to their histories, including descriptions of flora and fauna to local customs'.

Places

Africa, Tunisia, Tunis

Subjects

steamship, topography, townscape/cityscape, hill, sea, fortification, castle, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Samuel Davenport (1783 - 1867)

Title

Tunis

Date

1830

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 20.50 cm, width: 27.30 cm

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

Provenance

Map House, London; Foreign & Commonwealth Office (British Embassy, Tunis)

GAC number

17666