'View of Rangoon Harbour', Naive School, oil on canvas, 19th Century

'View of Rangoon Harbour'

Naive School, 19th Century.

oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm unframed

Yangon, anglicised as Rangoon, is the most populous city of Myanmar. It was captured by the British army in 1852 and it quickly became the political centre of British Burma. This crepuscular view of the harbour shows paddle steamers, sailing boats and junks moving in and out of the port.