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LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD HENRY MECHAM (1831 - 1865)

SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW


Estimate: Rs 1,25,000-Rs 1,50,000 ( $1,725-$2,070 )


Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow

LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD HENRY MECHAM, 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

[12] pages; tinted lithographed title page with vignette and 26 fine tinted lithographed views on 17 plates, with tissue new guards
Dark green cloth bound with gilt text on spine
22.5 x 15 x 0.75 in (57 x 38 x 2 cm)

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


NON-EXPORTABLE

An eye-witness view of the Siege of Lucknow, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British.