Colonel Colin Mackenzie, C.B. & F.R.S.: Surveyor General of All India

Stipple-engraving (painted by Thomas Hickey, Madras. 1816, published there ca. 1816); full-length portrait in uniform with 3 Indian attendants, landscape background showing large statue on hilltop. Stipple-engraving (painted by Thomas Hickey, Madras. 1816, published there ca. 1816); full-length portrait in uniform with 3 Indian attendants, landscape background showing large statue on hilltop. Large upright folio, matted; margins trimmed; worn, slightly soiled. Mackenzie went to India in 1782 and had a distinguished career in the Madras Engineers, taking part in many military actions and surveying vast tracts of the country. In 1807 he was appointed first Surveyor General of Madras and in 1819, first Surveyor General of India. Discoverer in 1797 of the Amaravati remains in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh (modern name), he returned there in 1816 and made a collection - British Museum.. During his lifetime he published one article (1807) on the subject and one posthumously in 1824 N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1950.