An album of seventeen coloured lithographs, including depictions of Duleep Singh and other Sikh figures, from Illustrations of the Mission, the Camp and the Zenana, by Helen C. Mackenzie, London 1856 (7)
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An album of seventeen coloured lithographs, including depictions of Duleep Singh and other Sikh figures, from Illustrations of the Mission, the Camp and the Zenana, by Helen C. Mackenzie, London 1856
incomplete (originally twenty), lithographs with some caption pages interspersed, most with handwritten captions beneath each plate on the mount; four further lithographs from the album (loose, two duplicates), and an engraving of Captain V. Eyre, Bengal Artillery; and a watercolour sketch of a Sikh soldier during the Second Sikh War in 1849, after William George Lawrence, with an apparently contemporary or near-contemporary inscription
lithographs 340 x 255 mm. and smaller; album 550 x 370 mm.; watercolour 235 x 175 mm.(7)
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Footnotes

  • Helen C. Mackenzie (1819-1910), was the wife of Colonel, later Lieutenant General Colin Mackenzie CB (1806–1881), and daughter of Admiral John Erskine Douglas RN. She moved with her husband's postings to Ludhiana, Simla and eventually to Lahore. She recorded her experiences, during which she witnessed the end of Sikh power, in Life in the Mission, the Camp and the Zenana; or Six Years in India, London 1853. She also published Storms and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life (1884), about her husband's career. See W. G. Archer, Paintings of the Sikhs, London 1966, pp. 62-64, and fig. 66.

    The inscription on the reverse of the watercolour sketch reads: from a sketch by Wm. Geo. Lawrence who saw these men passing in scores. A Sikh soldier on his way to join the Sirdar Chattar Sing, carrying his bedding and a bag of shot on his head, a bundle of Atta and Dal at his back, and his Ghi pot in his hand and his blanket over his musket. 'Wahji Guru! wahji Fattih!, Ho for the Gooroo, Ho for Victory!' Dedicated [...] Sir Charles Napier C in C, July 1849.

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