The Relief of Lucknow and Triumphal Meeting of Havelock, Outram and Sir Colin Campbell

1862

Original hand-coloured engraving on paper

Print size: 17.5 x 24.5 in (44.5 x 62 cm)
Sheet size: 18 x 25 in (45.5 x 63.5 cm)

The present lot is a S Lipsitz Edition (smaller and coloured version of the mutiny print) that followed a similar work by Thomas Jones Barker made after the Thomas Agnew & Sons larger version of 24th April 1860. Both the painting and engraving depict a scene from the Indian Mutiny in 1857 - a mutiny that began in Meerut and spread rapidly across North India and records the aftermath of one of the most traumatic episodes of the British involvement in India, when a siege that had lasted four months was finally lifted.

This print, after Thomas Jones Barker's painting in the National Gallery, London, depicts a smoke-covered Lucknow in the background with the three generals, Colin Campbell, James Outram and Henry Havelock, meeting in the foreground in the centre of a crowded scene, shaking hands, surrounded by their soldiers on foot and horses, including cavalry at right and some injured and dying in the foreground, a camel sitting in the left foreground, and elephant behind at right; the city beyond, with clouds of smoke rising from the ground.

This work will be shipped unframed

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