album;
extra-illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1939,1010.1.1-10
- Description
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'A chapter in the history of the conquest of the Panjab. By Robert Needham Cust, LL.D.' (Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons) 1898; book with individual pages pasted on large album, up to four book pages on each page of the album, with 10 large lithographs after Charles Harding showing figures, views and buildings:
1. Gulab Sing
2. The Maharajah Dhulip Sing
3. Entry into Lahore
4. The Hazari Bagh
5. Sheik Imam-Ud-Din, Runjur Sing, Dewan Dina Nath
6. Sikh soldiers receiving their pay at the Royal Durbar Lahore
7. Tomb of the Emperor Jehangir
8. Rajah Lal Sing
9. Battle of Ferozeshah
10. Outpost of Rhodawala
Together with pages from other publications, handwritten notes, and 12 parts of the book 'The war in Idia' (London: John Ollivier & Ackerman, 1846) pasted on the album pages: the first booklet with title and a folded hand-coloured map of Northern India as frontispiece; other chapeters with heading 'War with the Sikhs' on top and the maps: 'Position of the army of the Sutlej', 'Plan of the battle of Aliwal', ''Plan of the battle of Sahraon', and 'Sketch of the encampment of the army of the Sutlej'. Bookplate of Robert Needham Cust pasted inside front cover, various blank pages at the back. Bound in half-leather, with title in gold at the front cover.
Lithograph, some of the maps hand-coloured
- Production date
- 1898
- Dimensions
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Height: 400 millimetres (approx. size of each album page)
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Width: 295 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Chapter in the history of the conquest of the Panjab
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Presented to the British Musuem by Robert Henry Hubert Cust & his sister Mrs H. M. Leaf (anna Maria Cust).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,1010.1.1-10
