Lot 24 Details

Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters 24-26 July 2024

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow [Author‘s presentation copy]   by   Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham

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Lot 31 Details

Antiquarian Books Auction 15-16 January 2020

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow   by   Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham

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Lot 14 Details

Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 13 February 2024

Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham

Set of 2 Prints...

a) J Needham after Henry Clifford...

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b) E Walker after Henry Clifford Mecham, Near view from the Highlanders' Post, 1858, Later hand-coloured tinted lithograph on paper
Print size: 10.25 x 14 in (26 x 35.5 cm)
Sheet size: 11 x 15.5 in (28.2 x 39.6 cm)
With mount: 17.5 x 21.6 in (44.5 x 55.5 cm)

Plate no. 19 from Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow: From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude, London: Day and Son, 1858

The accompanying illustration depicts a view of the advanced post of the position carried and occupied by Her Majesty’s 78th Highlanders shortly after the arrival of the force under Sir James Outram. The building on the left is Anderson’s House, and on the right, the post held by Captain Germon, inside the old intrenchments, and facing the Cawnpore road. By holding this post, therefore, the road was commanded on both sides, and the barricade represented in the sketch was thrown across it. It was an unpleasant place, however, as the enemy’s round shot used to come skipping, down the road and into the defences from guns situated in gardens two or three hundred yards distant. The edifice in the background is the “Begum Kothee,” which means the “noble woman’s dwelling.” It was the centre of the Residency position; and partly from that circumstance, and partly owing to the mark afforded by its two lofty minarets, it suffered severely from round shot and shell. As the reader will perceive, one of the spires themselves was knocked away by a cannon-ball.

(Set of two)

These works will be shipped unframed

NON-EXPORTABLE

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Rs 24,000
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Lot 4 Details

Friday Five 20 November 2020

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow   by   Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham

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$1,363
Rs 98,850
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Lot 7 Details

Absolute Tuesdays: Hindoostan Illustrated 8 September 2020

Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham

15 Indian Mutiny ...

Tinted lithograph on paper

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15 Indian Mutiny tinted lithographs by Clifford Henry Mecham [1831-65] from his "Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow" published by Day & Son of London in 1858

List of Prints:

The Seikh Yard Breach
The Seikh Yard Battery
Mr Gubbins's House
The Church
The Baillie Guard Gateway
The Baillie Guard Gateway from The Nobut Khana [Music Hall]
The Nobut Khana Gateway
The New Cawnpore Battery
Havelock's Grave and The Alumbagh Picket House
Anderson's Battery
Rear View of The Residency from The Churchyard
The Residency from The Water Gate
The Judicial Commissioner's Kutchery [Court House]
Sanders's Post
The Redan Battery

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