Set of 2 Prints on The Siege of Lucknow

a) J Needham after Henry Clifford Mecham, Interior of the Residency Billiard Room, 1858, Later hand-coloured tinted lithograph on paper
Print size: 10.25 x 14 in (26 x 35.5 cm)
Sheet size: 11 x 15.5 in (28.2 x 39.6 cm)
With mount: 17.5 x 21.6 in (44.5 x 55.5 cm)

Plate no. 14 from Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow: From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude, London: Day and Son, 1858

The Billiards-room was in the upper or third story of the Residency, and so unfortunately situated that round shot and shell could enter it from both sides. It was consequently sadly dilapidated. The table itself was knocked to pieces. It was an old wooden one, that had been handed over by each departing Resident to his successor for the last half-century. How little any of them anticipated what would be the ultimate fate of the ancient piece of furniture. From the verandah a magnificent view, only second to that from the turrets of the building, is obtained of the “Ohata Munzil” and the surrounding city.

b) E Walker after Henry Clifford Mecham, Near view from the Highlanders' Post, 1858, Later hand-coloured tinted lithograph on paper
Print size: 10.25 x 14 in (26 x 35.5 cm)
Sheet size: 11 x 15.5 in (28.2 x 39.6 cm)
With mount: 17.5 x 21.6 in (44.5 x 55.5 cm)

Plate no. 19 from Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow: From Drawings made during the Siege by Clifford Henry Mecham with Descriptive Notices by George Couper, Esq. late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude, London: Day and Son, 1858

The accompanying illustration depicts a view of the advanced post of the position carried and occupied by Her Majesty’s 78th Highlanders shortly after the arrival of the force under Sir James Outram. The building on the left is Anderson’s House, and on the right, the post held by Captain Germon, inside the old intrenchments, and facing the Cawnpore road. By holding this post, therefore, the road was commanded on both sides, and the barricade represented in the sketch was thrown across it. It was an unpleasant place, however, as the enemy’s round shot used to come skipping, down the road and into the defences from guns situated in gardens two or three hundred yards distant. The edifice in the background is the “Begum Kothee,” which means the “noble woman’s dwelling.” It was the centre of the Residency position; and partly from that circumstance, and partly owing to the mark afforded by its two lofty minarets, it suffered severely from round shot and shell. As the reader will perceive, one of the spires themselves was knocked away by a cannon-ball.

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