Sketches & incidents of the siege of Lucknow / 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.
Alternate Title(s):
Sketches and incidents of the siege of Lucknow
Published / Created:
London : Published October 1st 1858, by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, [1858]
Physical Description:
[12] pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3429330
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographs by F. Jones, R.M. Bryson, E. Walker, R.K. Thomas, and J. Needham.
Contents:
No. 1. The Baillie Guard Gateway -- no. 2. The Baillie Guard Gateway from the Nobut Khana -- no. 3. The Residency, from the Water Gate -- no. 4. Mr. Gubbins's House -- no. 5. Sanders's Post -- no. 6. Front View of the Residency -- no. 7. The Church -- no. 8. The Redan Battery -- no. 9. The Baillie Guard Battery and Hospital -- no. 10. The new Cawnpore Battery -- no. 11. The Judicial Commissioner's Kutchery -- no. 12. Rear View of the Residency from the Churchyard -- no. 13. The Seik Yard Breach -- no. 14. Interior of the Residency Billiard-room -- no. 15. The Seik Yard Battery -- no. 16. The Nobut Khana Gateway -- no. 17. The Clock-tower Gateway -- no. 18. View from the Residency Look-out Tower -- no. 19. View from the Highlanders' Post -- no. 20. Anderson's Battery -- no. 21. Havelock's Grave and the Allum Bagh Picket-house -- no. 22. Interior of the Allum Bagh -- no. 23. Jellalabad -- no. 24. The Mosque Picket -- no. 25. Listening for Miners -- no. 26. Lying in Wait -- no. 27. Sinking a Shaft
Subject Terms:
Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Pictorial works. | India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857–1858 -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs. | Illustrated works.
Contributors:
Couper, George Ebenezer Wilson, 1824–1908, author. | Needham, Joseph, active 1848–1874, lithographer. | Thomas, R. Kent (Robert Kent), 1816–1884, lithographer. | Walker, Edmund, 1813 or 1814–1882, lithographer. | Bryson, Robert M., active 1863–1876, lithographer. | Day & Son, publisher, printer.