Two photographic prints of drawings depicting panoramic scenes from the Indian Uprising and Second Opium War.
BEATO (Felice) photographer & CREALOCK (Henry Hope) after.

Two photographic prints of drawings depicting panoramic scenes from the Indian Uprising and Second Opium War.

Albumen prints on paper, both folded. Raptee: 230 by 530mm, tipped onto an album leaf, composite panorama made up of two conjoined photographic prints, old closed tear, stuck down to leaf with flap folding out, a little contemporary ink touch up where prints are joined, slight cockling where pasted down, edges of album leaf chipped, ink title beneath. Cavalry Chase at Sinho: 220 by 595mm. Laid down on card and folded vertically with old tape reinforcements to verso. Slight splitting at lower edge of fold. London, J. Hogarth, 1861.

£300.00
BEATO (Felice) photographer & CREALOCK (Henry Hope) after.
Two photographic prints of drawings depicting panoramic scenes from the Indian Uprising and Second Opium War.

Two photographic prints by Felice Beato (1832-1909) after drawings by Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891). These images were published as part of Sketches of the Campaign in India (1861) and Chinese War: Sketches of the Allied Expedition to Pekin (1862).

Considered to be the first photographer to specialise in war, Beato, a naturalised British subject originally from Venice, met Crealock whilst they both were serving in Crimea. Crealock was an accomplished artist who was present at the Siege of Sevastopol, and made extensive sketches of the scenes he witnessed during the Indian Mutiny and the China campaign. Beato’s innovative use of photography to reproduce Crealock’s detailed battle scenes represents an interesting technological collaboration between two war artists working in different mediums.

The Rapti (here “Raptee”) River scene shows a particularly vicious skirmish towards the end of the Indian Rebellion in December 1858, with the soldiers of the 7th Hussars pursuing the rebels into the water and mercilessly cutting them down.

“The Cavalry Charge at Sinho” shows a scene on 12th August 1860 when Captain Walter Fane led a charge of Indian soldiers in his 19th Bengal Lancers (Fane’s Horse), against the Tartar adversaries during the Second Opium War.

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Two photographic prints of drawings depicting panoramic scenes from the Indian Uprising and Second Opium War.
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