MECHAM, CLIFFORD HENRY
SKETCHES & INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW
Year: 1858
Size: 14.3 x 21.5 inches
Year: 1858Size: 36.5 x 54.5 cm (14.3 x 21.5 inches)
Published by: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen 1859. Folio.
No. of Printed Pages: Pages
No. of Lithographs: 27 Views on 17 Fine Sepia Lithographed Plates
From drawings made during the Siege.
Title with lithographed vignette.
LIST OF PLATES
1. Title page. Baillie Guard Gateway
2. The Baillie Guard Gateway from the Nobut Khana (Music Hall)
3. The Residency from the Water Gate
4. Mr. Gubbins's House
5. Sander's Post
6. Front view of the Residency
7. The Church
8. The Redan Battery
9. The Baillie Guard Battery and Hospital
10. The New Cawnpore Battery
11. The Judicial Commissioners' Kutchery (Court House.)
12. Rear view of the Residency from the Churchyard
13. The Seikh Yard Breach
14. Interior of the Residency Billiard Room
15. View from Residency Look Out Tower
16. The Seikh Yard Battery
17. The Nobut Khana Gateway
18. The Clock Tower Gateway
19. View from the Highlanders' Post
20. Anderson's Battery
21. Havelock's Grave, and the Alumbagh Picket-House
22. Interior of Alumbagh
23. Jellalabad
24. Listening for Miners
25. The Mosque Picket
26. Lying in Wait
27. Sinking a Shaft
BINDING: Later re backed retaining the original brown cloth with titles in gilt and floral decoration in blind, new leather spine marble end paper with beautiful gilt decoration and rules on spine and covers, title in gilt on spine.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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