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1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", [1857, and later] image 1
1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", [1857, and later] image 2
1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", [1857, and later] image 3
1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", [1857, and later] image 4
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1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES
An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", [1857, and later]

2 March 2022, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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1857 MUTINY OR UPRISING - PHOTOGRAPHY AND SKETCHES

An album of 18 photographic portraits (including 6 by Felice Beato), and 6 original pencil drawings relating to the "Indian Mutiny", albumen prints (255 x 210mm., and smaller), 7 pencil sketches (some heightened in white, captioned in ink, 255 x 355mm.), early twentieth century half morocco, gilt lettered "India Mutiny Celebrities" on spine, worn folio, [1857, and later]

Footnotes

Photographs comprise: Gen. Colin Campbell; Gen. James Hope Grant; Gen. Robert Napier; Lt-Gen. Henry Norman; Sir Robert Montgomery; Lieutenant-Colonel Braysyer, 14th Sikhs, all by Felice Beato; The Supreme Indian Council, Simla, 1864, by Bourne & Shepherd; Gen. Archdale Wilson; Gen. James Brind; Sir Donald Stewart; William Montagu Hay; Large portrait of six "officers and men of the Royal Engineers", all identified (255 x 210mm.); group portrait of the 31st Bengal Light Infantry (captioned "this regiment remained loyal throughout the Mutiny"); Officers of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders; Officer of the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry; Officers of the Army Head Quarters, Simla, ?1864, 3 groups.

Sketches comprise: 'Sketched from Hodson's Tent. The unroofed house on left is where Leut. Nicholson died..."; 'Flag Staff Toer, Aug. 22d. 1857'; 'View of the ridge showing the right battery, Hinddo Rao and Observatory looking across the Valley of Death. Sketched from the mound, July 20/57'; 'Delhi face of Hinddo Rao House from the Centre Battery [with Sikh soldiers in foreground], Aug. 4/57'; 'The Mosque Piquet... Sketched while Gen. Wilson was working on one of the guns'; 'Gen. Batson in the dress in which he escaped Delhi. Sketched at Camp Alipore, June 7/57' with a further sketch of a cannon (dated 11 July 1857) pasted on blank area of sheet; 'Large iron gun at Selim Bagh... English wheels, native carriage'. The drawings are pasted in, and have further annotations, including note "See plan of Cantonment and City of Delhi" in ink on mounting card of all. They have pencil note "For R.[oyal] U.[nited] S.[ervices] I.[nstitute] Library".

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