View of Bombay in 1773--Artist: Forbes, James Medium: Engraving Date: 1813

THE BOMBAY FORT ;THE BOMBAY DOCKYARD(HARBOR) AND THE ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL CAN BE SEEN



Plate twenty-one from the first volume of James Forbes'"Oriental Memoirs". Forbes(1749-1819)had arrived in Bombay in 1766 and spent eighteen years of his working-life in this region. 'This view contains the general face of the town towards the harbour; commencing with the Dock-yard, and including the Admiralty, Marine-House, English Church, Pier, Bunder, Castle, Dungaree Fort, or Fort George, and other conspicuous buildings, taken from the shipping opposite Bunder Pier.'