[The Relief of Lucknow, and the Triumphant Meeting of Havelock, Outram and Sir Colin Campbell]

circa 1860

Original hand-coloured engraving on paper

Print Size: 24 x 37 in (61 x 93.5 cm)
With Mount: 30.25 x 43 in (77 x 109.5 cm)

Captioned "Proof" before the title. Possibly published by T Agnew & Sons, London, 24 April 1860

The present lot is a rare smaller, proof copy and coloured version of the mutiny print that followed a similar work by Thomas Jones Barker made after the Thomas Agnew & Sons larger version of 1862.

Both the painting and engraving depict a scene from the Indian Mutiny in 1857—a mutiny that began in Meerut and spread rapidly across North India—and records the aftermath of one of the most traumatic episodes of the British involvement in India, when a siege that had lasted four months was finally lifted.

This print, after Thomas Jones Barker's painting in the National Gallery, London, depicts a smoke-covered Lucknow in the background with the three generals, Colin Campbell, James Outram, and Henry Havelock, meeting in the foreground in the centre of a crowded scene, shaking hands, surrounded by their soldiers on foot and horses, including cavalry at right and some injured and dying in the foreground, a camel sitting in the left foreground, and an elephant behind at right; the city beyond, with clouds of smoke rising from the ground.

This lot will be shipped unframed.

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