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LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD HENRY MECHAM (1831 – 1865)

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SKETCHES & INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW
Dimension: 22.4 x 14.7 in

R 1,00,000 - R 1,40,000

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From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant Madras Army, with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude. London, Published October 1st 1858, By Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, complete with 27 tinted lithographs (including title page) on 18 sheets

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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

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