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WD255
- Record Id:
- 040-003282320
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003282313
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x0031bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143417989.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD255
- Title:
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The Rostchild Coffee Plantation, Pussellawa (Ceylon). 4 February 1868. Artist(s): Leighton, Stanley (1837-1901)
- Scope & Content:
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The Rostchild Coffee Plantation, Pussellawa (Ceylon). 4 February 1868.
Inscribed on mount in pencil as above.
Pencil and wash; 4.5 by 9.75 ins.
Pencil drawing of the Rosthchild Coffee Plantation at Pussellawa in Sri Lanka, by Stanley Leighton (1837-1901), dated 4th February 1868. The image is inscribed on the mount in pencil as above.Although today known for its tea exports, the mainstay of Sri Lanka's economy was once coffee. The Dutch experimented with seedlings from their Javanese plantations, but the coffee crop did not grow well at the lower elevations of the coastal regions. It was the British who successfully introduced coffee crops to Sri Lanka with their access to the interior of the island. The higher plateaus and peaks were rapidly annexed and deforested and by 1867 coffee covered over 100,000 acres of the island's hill country. In 1869 a leaf disease spread through the plantations and decimated the coffee crop, which forced the British to focus on other exportable commodities. As a result, the acreage was converted to tea plantations, as it remains today.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003282313
040-003282320 - Is part of:
- WD249-302 : LEIGHTON, STANLEY (1837-1901) Leighton practised as a barrister from 1861 to 1867 and became Conservative Member of Parliament for…
WD255 : The Rostchild Coffee Plantation, Pussellawa (Ceylon). 4 February 1868. Artist(s): Leighton, Stanley (1837-1901) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003282313[0007]/040-003282320
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD249-302
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143417989.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1868
- End Date:
- 1868
- Date Range:
- 1868
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; wash. 11.3 x 25.2 cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)