Twenty one views of India, Gibraltar, Aden, Egypt, South Africa, St. Helena, Cape Verde, Tenerife, and Madiera

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Captain Dominick Sarsfield Greene (1826 - 1892), Royal Artillery
Twenty one views of India, Gibraltar, Aden, Egypt, South Africa, St. Helena, Cape Verde, Tenerife, and Madiera
thirteen signed with 'DSG' monogram and eighteen inscribed on the paper mounts 'The Ragmahal Hills. / Bengal. / 14.11.[5]7'; 'View near Benares.'; 'Interior of the Slaughter House. / Cawnpore'; 'Broken Bridge over the Barkuutah. / dry season'; 'Jumna Masjid - Delhi'; 'The Taj Agra'; 'Gibraltar Hill from Rawul Pi.../ Sunset'; 'The Caves of Elephanta / Bombay'; 'Ghauts. Bombay. / Sunset'; 'The Galleries / Gibraltar / Europa Point / 24.8.57'; 'Aden / a coaling station in the Red Sea / 16.9.57'; 'On the road to Constantia / 12.5.58'; 'From Sandy Bay ridge, St. Helena / 3.6.58'; 'The Harbour, St. Vincent, Cape Verde / 19.6.58'; 'The Mans Head Rock, St. Vincent'; 'Bird Island, St. Vincent, St Antonia in the distance / 20.6.58'; 'From Funchal'; and 'Peak of Tenerife / Height 12,500 ft. above the sea / Jutland 11 miles from Orotava / early morning'
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
10½ x 14½in. (26.5 x 37cm.) and smaller
(21)

Provenance

Sir Alexander Moncrieff (1829–1906) and thence by descent

Engraved

Views in India, from drawing taken during the Seapoy Mutiny, Thos. Maclean, London, 1859, plates V (From the Fort, Benares), VI (View near Benares from behind Charles' Hotel), IX (The Slaughter House Cawnpore, Interior), X (Broken Bridge over the Burkutah, dry season), XV (Windham's Entrenchment, Cawnpore)

Lot Essay

Dominick Sarsfield Greene served with the Royal Artillery between 1846-1884, eventually holding the rank of Major General on his retirement. Whilst serving in India he was appointed as A.D.C. to Major General Dupuis, commander of the Royal Artillery in India. Sarsfield Greene saw action during the second relief of Cawnpore whilst in command of the bullock field battery following the second battle of Cawnpore on the 26th and 27th of November, 1857. Five of the watercolours in this collection relate to lithographed plates from Sarsfield Greene’s Views in India, from drawing taken during the Seapoy Mutiny including The Slaughter House, Cawnpore, Interior.

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