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[Days of Mourning.]
[Painted by Edwin Long, R.A. Engraved by G. Sidney Hunt.] Signed in pencil.
London June 1st. 1892. Published by Fairless & Beeforth. 128, New Bond Street, W. Copyright Registered.
Uncut. Mint.
Edwin Long (1829-1891) was born in Bath, had an early and precocious talent for drawing, studied at the RA Schools from 1849, and also was a student under John Phillip, who encouraged him to travel. in 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria, and this was the start of his career as an Orientalist painter. He developed a rich, exotic style, strong in detail and often on canvases of large size, allowing him to show long processions, enormous palaces or sweeps of mountains on an epic scale. His best years were in the 1870s-80s, when he was a popular, successful artist specialising in biblical stories and life in ancient Egypt. He became ARA in 1876 and RA in 1881. Fairless and Beeforth commissioned the trilogy of paintings taken from Judges xi, 30-40, where Jepthah's Vow is recorded. This picture with The Martyr and the Return [see ref:14087 & 14094] make the trilogy.
[Ref: 14085] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Rangoon. The Position of part of the Army previous to attacking the Stockades on the 9th July 1824.
Drawn by J. Moore. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Pub.d Oct.r 1. 1825, by Kingsbury & Co., 6, Leadenhall Street, and Tho.s Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, London.
Large margins with repaired tears.
British troops forming squares prior to an assault. On the right a ground of artillerymen stand around a Congrieve-Rocket launcher. Lieutenant Joseph Moore's 'Views taken at or near Rangoon' illustrated the British campaign during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), the first of three such wars in the 19th century. Abbey Travel 404, 12. Hickman 237.
[Ref: 55465] £260.00
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[First Anglo-Burmese War] The Conflagration of Dalla, on the Rangoon River.
Drawn by J. Moore. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Published Jan. 2, 1826, by Thos. Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, & Kingsbury & Co. Leadenhall Str.t London.
Steam and sailing ships and their crews observing the city on fire in the distance. Plate17 of Series 1 of 'Views taken at or near Rangoon, and Combined operations in the Birman Empire', by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, published in two series 1825-26. The First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824 - 24 February 1826). Abbey Travel 404; Hickman p.230, illus p. 241.
[Ref: 63042] £320.00
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