Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1813
Robert Milligan
Robert Milligan was a wealthy West India merchant, slave-owner and ship owner, who managed his family's sugar plantations in Jamaica. Outraged at losses caused by theft and delay at London's riverside wharves, Milligan headed a group of powerful businessmen who built West India Docks. Opened in 1802, these docks were the largest structure of their kind anywhere in the world. They received shipments of goods from the West Indies, including sugar and coffee. This statue was erected at the West India Docks after Milligan's death in 1809.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 81.620
- Object name:
- Robert Milligan
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- Production date:
- 1813
- Material:
- paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 440 mm, W 325 mm (paper), H 282 mm, W 206 mm (plate mark)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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