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The Young Civilians Toilet. Anglo Indians. Plate 1.
Drawn by W. Taylor Esq.r Bengal Civil Service. Litho by J. Bouvier.
Published Feb.y 1st 1842 for the Proprietor by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. Printed at the Gen.l Lith.s Estab.t 70 St. Martins Lane.
Lithograph. Sheet size: 355 x 275mm (14 x 10¾"), with large margins.
Plate 1 from 'Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians and Anglo Indians', published in 1842, after sketches made by William Tayler (1808–1892) who entered the service of the East India Company in 1829, and according to DNB 'his official career had been uneventful, though he made friends in high quarters by his skill as a portrait painter, and some enemies by a turn for caricature.' His actions during the mutiny enforced his retirement in 1859. Abbey Travel 465
[Ref: 39317] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Defence of the Arrah House. Against three Mutinous Regiments and a large body of Insurgents. Under Koer Singh - Dedicated to K. V. Boyle, Esquire, C. E. To whose skill and forethought the safety of the Garisson is principally to be attributed by, W. Tayler. B. C. S.]
Maclure & Co Chromo - lith London.
[n.d., c.1857].
Scarce chromolithograph. Framed, sight size 325 x 490mm (12¾ x 19¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A depiction of the defence of the Arrah House against Koer Singh during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Soldiers can be seen storming the regency gardens, some firing from behind plants and trees, whilst others lay dead, with their weapons, on the ground; two cannons are fired in the centre of the image as a building, to the left, burns. The artist, William Tayler (1808-1892), was Commissioner of the Province of Patna
[Ref: 61572] £790.00
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