The Ceylon Plates
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Cart beneath a leaning banyan arch on Galle Road, Kalutara. Galle Road (Colombo to Galle).
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Natural History

Cart beneath a leaning banyan arch on Galle Road, Kalutara

Galle Road (Colombo to Galle)
1890s

Certainty
Identified
Named on the print, matched to a published caption, an unmistakable landmark, or identified by the collection’s owner.
On the print
Skeen & Co (number unclear), also No 54
Maker
Skeen & Co
Date basis
Date not confirmed
Identified by
Visual identification; place and date compared with Lankapura captions
Reference
TCP-N123

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