Scrapbook.

Scrapbook containing prints, drawings, copies of poems, extracts from literary works and personal notes, undated.

Includes, for example, engravings of Haitian revolutionary Toussiant Louverture, Indian rulers Tipu Sultan and Krishnaraja Wadiyar III and Chinese mandarins (bureaucrat-scholars).
[Catalogue information compiled as part of ‘Unlocking Collections’, a project to find images of ‘global majority’ people across RMG’s collections, 2017-present].

Record Details

Item reference: PGE/13; MS1984/169
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: circa 1840
Creator: Page, Benjamin William
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London