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The General Governor in Tranquebar
1786-1808.
Peter Anker 1744 - 1832
The Swedish born Norwegian Peter Anker
was general governor for the Danish-Norwegian colony Tranquebar at the
Coromandel Coast in India. At that time about 25000 Indians and about 100
Europeans lived in the small town.
He was a competent amateur painter, who was interested in botany,
architecture, archaeology and street life and
during his stay in India he drew and painted - as the first Norwegian -
the impressions from the exotic India on paper and canvas.
The Ethnographic Museum in Norway has had an exhibition about his works.
Try http://www.ukm.uio.no/utstillinger/peteranker/
and http://www.uio.no/museum/ .
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Portrait of General Governor Peter Anker painted by Niels
Gude.
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An area outside Tranquebar.
(By Peter Anker) |
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Peter Ankers drawing of The Governors residence,
as it looks like at that time. |
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The Governors country house in Tillaly outside
Tranquebar.
(Watercolour from 1789 by Peter Anker)
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Thillai (Tillaly) is the old name for the city Chidambaram. |
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Peter
Anker: Tillally, the governor’s country residence, catalogue
no. 4416. 17.2 x 36.4 cm. Watercolour and gouache on
paper. Signed P. Anker. Inscription on label stuck on the front
which is also signed P. Anker: Tillally Kongens Hauge 3/4
Mile from Tranquebar 1789.
Inscription on the back on the frame which has now been removed:
A view of Governor Major General P. Ankers recreational
residence, Tillaly 1/2 Mile outside Trankebar.
Drawn by himself and bestowed upon me. Carsten
Anker his loyal brother.
(Picture and text from Dorthea Hysing's book
about Peter Anker) |
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Tranquebar. (Watercolour from 1790 by Peter Anker)
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