5 Oct 2010
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Travel and Photography, India and Beyond
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Travel and Photography, India and Beyond
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SIKH WARS
HARDINGE (CHARLES STEWART) Eight views, tinted lithographs, images approximately 285 x 372mm., [Thomas M'Lean, 1847] (8)
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£1,140
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Footnotes
- Hardinge (18221894), was the eldest son of Henry Hardinge (17851856), Governor-General of India, and father of Charles Hardinge (1858-1944), the later Viceroy. He was private secretary to his father when governor-general in the second half of the 1840s, also the period of the Sikh Wars. Hardinge visited Kashmir (then in Sikh hands), with John Nicholson (18211857). The views (each with its letterpress decription preserved), include several of positions important to the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845-1846: Outpost of Rhodawala; Hill Fort of Gulab Sing; Wulur Lake; Passage of the River Chunab; Bij Beara; Kote Kangra; City of Kashmir. Mosque of Shah Hamadan; Delhi. Palace of the King. See illustration overleaf.
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![Nine aquatints depicting battles of the Anglo-Sikh Wars, published by Rudolph Ackermann, London [1850] (9)](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-03/02/94494800-1-1.jpg.tif&tmp=web075&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000)
![SIKH GUNS The Triumphal Reception of the Seikh Guns [at Calcutta]... Dedicated to the Army of the Sutledge under the Command of Gen. Sir Hugh Gough, Commander-in-Chief and the Rt. Honble. Sir Henry Hardinge, Governor General, Second in Command](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2010-08/12/8139134-1-2.jpg.tif&tmp=web075&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000)
