Catalogue: Naval
The Meeting of the Allied Monarchs in the Grand Square after the ever memorable Battle of Leipsic, Octr. 18. 1813. Entrevue des Souverains Allies a la Place Grande. Apres la Bataile a Jamais memorable de Leipsic, Oct.18. 1813.
Drawn & Etched by I.M. Wright. Aquat by Hill.
London: Pubd. Decr. 1. 1814. by Hassell & Rickards, 344, Strand.
Very fine coloured aquatint 630 x 500mm. Margins outside platemark have adhesive tape on reverse from former framing.
[Under] The Emporer Alexander, Genl Platoff, Drown Prince, P.Swartzenberg. Emperor Francis, Genl. Von York. P.Blucher, King of Prussia. Sir C. Stuart.
(Oct. 16–19, 1813) Decisive defeat for Napoleon at Leipzig, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. Surrounded in the city, Napoleon's army was able only to thwart the allied attacks. As it began to retreat over the single bridge westward from the city, a frightened corporal blew up the bridge, leaving 30,000 French troops trapped in Leipzig to be taken prisoner. The battle was one of the most severe of the Napoleonic Wars; the French lost 38,000 men killed and wounded, and the allies lost 55,000.
[Ref: 6727] £650.00
The Grand Charge Of The Guards On The Heights Of The Alma. Septr. 20th 1854.
L. Huard delt. et lith. from a Sketch taken on the Spot by an English Officer. M & N Hanhart, Lithographic Printers.
Goupil & Co. Paris & Berlin. Depose. London Published Novr. 1st. 1854 By E. Gambart & Co. 85 Berners Street Oxford Street.
Coloured lithograph, sheet 425 x 565mm. 16¾ x 22¼". Slightly soiled.
The Battle of the Alma (20 September 1854) is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War (1853 – 1856), and took place in the vicinity of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6,000 troops.
Captioned below the image.
[Ref: 10030] £280.00
Weather view of an American schooner under reef'd sails.
Drawn on stone by J. Rogers
[Printed by Rowney & Forster. Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket. n.d., c.1824]
Coloured lithograph, 275 x 420mm. 10¾ x 16½". Slightly trimmed at bottom; rare.
[Ref: 11247] £280.00
La Battaille d'Arsan.
Sebiastian le Clerk del. Johana Sibilla Kräusin fecit.
Jeremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 220 x 170mm, 8¾ x 6¾". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A battle scene and several town plans within a military-themed, frame-line border, relating to the military adventures of Charles of Lorraine during the Turkish invasion of Austria in 1683.
[Ref: 14067] £65.00
(£76.38 incl.VAT)
Royal Artillery Repository Exercises, 1844. And Monument to the Memory of the late Major General Sir Alexander Dickson, G.C.B.
Drawn & Engraved by John Grant. Illustrations of the Army & Navy Register and Woolwich Gazette.
Coloured aquatint in frame. 280 x 389mm. 11 x 15¼".
From the "Illustrations of the Army and Navy Register and Woolwich Gazette. No.2." From the Collection of Major J.B. Talbot M.C. R.A. Ogilby:484.
[Ref: 13000] £280.00
Attack upon Buenos Ayres, by Gen. Beresford.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 102 x 170mm. 4 x 6¾". Some staining.
The Battle of Buenos Aires (1806) was led by Colonel William Carr Beresford who was sent across the South Atlantic to invade the Plata region. The Biritsh landed at Quilmes, near Buenos Aires. However on 4th August 1806, a French marine officer, Santiago de Liniers y Bremond, an officer of the Spanish Navy, helped by Ruiz Huidobro to form a coalition between Buenos Aires line troops and Montevideo Militia, marched towards the cirty. After two days of finding, Beresford surrended on 12th August.
[Ref: 16192] £60.00
(£70.50 incl.VAT)
[The bag piper.]
fac similé d'après Edouard Detaille 1879 [in image lower left].
[London, Goupil & Co., c.1880.]
Photogravure printed in colour, with gouache heightening. 310 x 215mm. 12¼ x 8½".
Scottish regimental bag piper, with black cap and white shirt, in a green kilt with white sporran.
After Édouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (1848 - 1912), French painter and etcher.
[Ref: 9019] £180.00
(£211.50 incl.VAT)
Town And Harbour Of Balaklava. From The Camp Of The 93Rd. Highlanders.
Lieut. Montagu O' Reilly, delt. Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published Novr. 13th. 1854, by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East_Publishers to Her Majesty.
Coloured lithograph, sheet 390 x 530mm. 15¼ x 20¾". Repaired tear through title.
A British military camp before Balaklava in the Crimea, Ukraine.
From a sketch from life by a British army officer. Captioned below and above image.
[Ref: 10028] £240.00
[Battery in action.]
Pub Jan 1st. 1824 by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching in frame. Image 120 x 256mm. 4¾ x 10".
The shooting of a cannon, with one soldier having been wounded by the shock, possibly if the wheel had run over his foot. The senior officer with telescope looks into the distance directing the fire. From the Collection of Major J.B. Talbot M.C. R.A. Not in Ogilby.
[Ref: 12996] £85.00
(£99.88 incl.VAT)
The Engagement between the British and French Troops at Alexandria on the 21st of March 1801.
[n.d., c.1801.]
Engraving from a contemporary periodical, 195 x 245mm. 7¾ x 9¾". Trace of four vertical folds, as normal. Slightly soiled.
The Battle of Alexandria in Egypt was fought on March 21st 1801 between the French army under General Menou and the British expeditionary corps under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who is depicted in the centre grappling with a French cavalry officer. Abercrombie was struck by a spent ball, which could not be extracted, and died seven days after the battle, aboard HMS Foudroyant, which was moored in the harbour.
[Ref: 12449] £60.00
(£70.50 incl.VAT)