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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[The Battle of Meeanee.]](jpegs/54049.jpg)
[The Battle of Meeanee.]
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[A View of Trent, in the Tyrol.]](jpegs/48491.jpg)
[A View of Trent, in the Tyrol.]
Painted by Sir A.W. Callcott, R.A. Engraved by James B. Allen.
London, Published July 1, 1840, by the Proprietors [Edward & William Finden] No. 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street & Ackermann & Co. Strand
Proof engraving on chine collé. 365 x 610mm (14½ x 24"), with very large margins.
A view of Trento (anglicised as Trent), formerly part of Austria but annexed by Italy in 1919. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844), a friendly rival of J.M.W. Turner, made Keeper of the Queen's Pictures in 1843. He painted this picture for his friend Samuel Cartwright, a dentist. Exhibited at the R.A. in 1836, The Times newspaper commented that to ''look at Callcott's 'Trent in the Tyrol' after a dose of Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' is as cool and refreshing as iced champagne after mulligatawny''. This plate was engraved for Finden's 'Gallery of British Art'.
[Ref: 48491] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Sir A.W. Callcott, R.A. Engraved by James B. Allen.
London, Published July 1, 1840, by the Proprietors [Edward & William Finden] No. 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street & Ackermann & Co. Strand
Proof engraving on chine collé. 365 x 610mm (14½ x 24"), with very large margins.
A view of Trento (anglicised as Trent), formerly part of Austria but annexed by Italy in 1919. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844), a friendly rival of J.M.W. Turner, made Keeper of the Queen's Pictures in 1843. He painted this picture for his friend Samuel Cartwright, a dentist. Exhibited at the R.A. in 1836, The Times newspaper commented that to ''look at Callcott's 'Trent in the Tyrol' after a dose of Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' is as cool and refreshing as iced champagne after mulligatawny''. This plate was engraved for Finden's 'Gallery of British Art'.
[Ref: 48491] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)