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English School, circa 1835
Bengal Troops on the line of March, (The advanced Guard driving in an out post of the Enemy.) A Sketch by an Officer in that Army. London: Day & Haghe, 1835
Oblong 2° (373 x 542mm.) One leaf mounted with two small format lithographic pages of explanatory text; 6 leaves mounted recto only with a CONTINUOUS STRIP HANDCOLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PANORAMA (116 x 8677mm. overall approx.), 3 sections to a page. (Mounts browned, some light browning to images.) Contemporary red/brown morocco gilt, gilt-tooled and lettered title label on upper cover (some scuffing to extremities). Provenance: William Vandon (presentation inscription to:); Charles Henry Lycett Warren.
RARE: this finely observed continuous panorama forms an affecti onate but realistic view of the trials involved in the movement of any large body of troops in India. The unidentified artist writes in the introductory text 'This hasty Sketch put together on board Ship, was originally undertaken as much for the purpose of breaking the monotony of a long Sea Voyage, as, to give to a numerous acquaintance at home a better idea of Troops moving in the East, than the Designer could convey in conversation. In the Upper Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William where the greatest portion of this fourteen years service has been passed, the scenes and figures he has here attempted to depict have from time to time been put on Paper.' He goes on to say that, had he chosen to show all the confusion of a line of march in India, the panorama would have been three times as long! The lithographs can be dated to 1835 or earlier from the form adopted by Day & Haghe: 'lithrs. to the King'. (Abbey Life 530)
Bengal Troops on the line of March, (The advanced Guard driving in an out post of the Enemy.) A Sketch by an Officer in that Army. London: Day & Haghe, 1835
Oblong 2° (373 x 542mm.) One leaf mounted with two small format lithographic pages of explanatory text; 6 leaves mounted recto only with a CONTINUOUS STRIP HANDCOLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PANORAMA (116 x 8677mm. overall approx.), 3 sections to a page. (Mounts browned, some light browning to images.) Contemporary red/brown morocco gilt, gilt-tooled and lettered title label on upper cover (some scuffing to extremities). Provenance: William Vandon (presentation inscription to:); Charles Henry Lycett Warren.
RARE: this finely observed continuous panorama forms an affecti onate but realistic view of the trials involved in the movement of any large body of troops in India. The unidentified artist writes in the introductory text 'This hasty Sketch put together on board Ship, was originally undertaken as much for the purpose of breaking the monotony of a long Sea Voyage, as, to give to a numerous acquaintance at home a better idea of Troops moving in the East, than the Designer could convey in conversation. In the Upper Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William where the greatest portion of this fourteen years service has been passed, the scenes and figures he has here attempted to depict have from time to time been put on Paper.' He goes on to say that, had he chosen to show all the confusion of a line of march in India, the panorama would have been three times as long! The lithographs can be dated to 1835 or earlier from the form adopted by Day & Haghe: 'lithrs. to the King'. (Abbey Life 530)
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