Lot 1420
AFTER AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG, RA (1816-1863)
THE COUNCIL OF WAR IN THE CRIMEA: LORD RAGLAN, OMAR PASHA AND MARECHAL PELISSIER
Mixed method engraving by S. Bellin, published by Henry Graves and Co, 1857, a proof before titles
63.5 x 53cm.
with a related photograph by Roger Fenton, published by T. Agnew & Sons, 1855, 18.7 x 15.2cm. [see illus.]; and a group of pictures of Raglan interest, to include an engraved portrait of Field Marshal Lord Raglan after Sir Francis Grant (85.5 x 40.5cm), another after D. J. Pound; prints and a watercolour of Raglan (or `Ragland`) Castle; a lithograph of `Interior of Lord Raglan's Head Quarters` (Crimea) by Wm Simpson, 1855; a coloured lithograph of `The Graves of the Officers of the Guards who fell at Inkerman` by V. Brooks, 1855; a Vanity Fair portrait print after Spy of the 3rd Lord Raglan, 1901; and two portrait prints of Prince Albert and Princess Beatrice, these apparently gifts from Queen Victoria in 1859 and 1867 (15 items, all but one framed)
