Author: SEVERNDROOG CASTLE
Title: Watercolour.
Description: c. 1830? Small original pen and ink with watercolour, 140 x 95 mm. laid down. Severndroog Castle [here identified as Sevendroog] is a folly commissioned by Lady James of Eltham to commemorate her late husband, Commodore Sir William James, who successfully attacked and destroyed the island fortress of Suvarnadurg [rendered here as Severndroog] on the western coast of India in 1755.

Keywords: Ephemera


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