Captain Thomas Abercrombie Trant (1805-1832)
Church at St Joseph's, Trinidad; St Joseph's; and Pandemonium. My House in Port of Spain
each inscribed as titled on the reverse, the first signed(?) and titled 'T. A. Trant Church of St Josephs Trinidad' on an old label attached to the backing board
pencil, pen and ink, and brown and grey wash on paper
the first 6¹⁵⁄₁₆in x 10¹⁄₄in. (17.7 x 26cm.)
the second 6 x 7⁵⁄₈in. (15.3 x 19.4cm.)
the third 5¹⁄₂ x 7⁵⁄₁₆in. (14 x 18.6cm.)
Trant lived in 'Pandemonium', his house in St Joseph's, when he was stationed in Trinidad with the Ist West India Regiment in 1827-28. A career soldier who served in the Cape in 1820, in Bengal in 1821, and in the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824-26, Trant later served in the Ionian Isles and in Ireland. He is the author of Two Years in Ava (1827) and a Narrative of a Journey through Greece (1830).
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