ID 992817
Lot 123 | OWEN, Major Charles Henry (1830-1908)
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 4 000
Sketches in the Crimea. London: Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1856.
A beautiful collection of sketches showing various military positions from across Crimea. Owen was unusual in being both an army officer and a member of the Royal Academy. The title image depicts the Chapel in the Caves at Inkerman, followed by sketches from in and around Sebastopol. Bobins I, 207.
Oblong folio (375 x 550mm). Lithographic title, three full-page lithographic plates, two sheets each with two lithographic plates and one folding lithographic plate, after Owen by Day and Son, printed with tints and coloured by contemporary hand (title with short marginal repaired tear and light spotting, faint variable spotting to other plates). Contemporary dark brown straight grained morocco over cloth-covered boards, upper cover lettered in gilt (rebacked preserving original backstrip, new endpapers, extremities rubbed with corners strengthened).
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
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