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John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849 image 1
John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849 image 2
John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849 image 3
John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849 image 4
John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849 image 5
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John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege
Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849

Islamic and Indian Art
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
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John Dunlop, Mooltan, a Series of Sketches During and After the Siege. Being Twenty-One Drawings, from Sketches Taken on the Spot [...] with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Siege
Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849

first edition, 22 tinted lithographed plates (including pictorial title) by Andrew Maclure after Dunlop finished by hand, original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, light cream endpapers, bookplate of Stoneleigh Abbey
380 x 280 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
Library of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire.

First edition of this illustrated account of the five-month siege of Mooltan, described by the author as 'the largest town in the Sikh territory after Lahore and Amritser [sic]'. It depicts the city at this time as well as the key participants and events in the siege. The siege had come about as a result of the British attempt to impose a new ruler on this city in 1848. This triggered an armed uprising by Dewan Mulraj which, as the British authorities sought to regain control of the area, led to the five-month siege. This event was one of the principal triggers for the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-1849).

The 21 tinted lithographs by Andrew Maclure (1812-1885) are after drawings made on the spot by John Dunlop, MD (1823-67), Assistant Surgeon to HM's 32nd Regiment, who also provided the descriptions to accompany the plates, which are as follows:

1. Fort of Mooltan from the west, Sept. 6th 48
2. Inhabitants of Mooltan
3. The Edgah where Mr Van Agnew & Lt Andersen were murdered
4. Neirain Singh, Cham Singh & Ram Singh, brothers of the Dewan Moolrag
5. Major Edwarde's Infantry
6. Major Edwarde's Cavalry
7. In the trenches, Gen. Courtland's men
8. Camp followers, Milk women
9. Camp followers, Camel Drivers
10. In the trenches-Septr 12/48 H.M.'s 32nd Regt.
11. Mundee Awa Dec 28/48
12. Storming the 'Mundee Awa' or Great Mound
13. Breaching the Delhi Gate. European sailors of the Indian Navy
14. Explosion of the Magazine Dec. 3
15. Appearance of Mooltan, quarter of an hour after the explosion
16. The 1st Bombay Europ. Fusileers storming the breach at the Koonee Boorg/Jan. 2nd 3 p.m
17. Struggle in the Town-Capture of 2 Sikh Standards
18. 'Churda Choke' or Great Bazaar-after taking the City
19. NE side of the fort, showing the British trenches Jan 6 1849
20. Dewan Moolrag in custody of a part of H M's 32nd Regt
21. NE side of fort, Funeral procession of Vans Agnew and S. Andersen

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