Costumes of the Indian army. Painted by H. de Daubrawra and Henry Martens.
Henry de Daubrawa (fl.1840 - 1861)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1843 - 1849
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100881
Summary
Bibliographic description
[37] leaves of plates : all col. ill. (aquatint engravings) ; fol. With three additional leaves of letterpress at start: title page; note on the collection signed F.A.C. Bathurst, 7th February, 1908; "Index" [to prints]. Tipped-in on additional leaves before and after title page: two original drawings by Henry Martens with pencil captions, including notes of their addition to the collection on 31st August 1933 and 10th January 1935. The first drawing has notes by Martens on verso. Plates are bound in numerical order, not the order given in the "Index". Pencil dots against plates nos. in "Index". Occasional pencil notes on plates. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) manuscript description of the book; (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Letterpress note by Bathurst (1908) bound in at start: "Thirty-seven plates ... carefully selected by the late General Astley Terry". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt-stamped coat of arms of Lord Fairhaven on upper board. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco, triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt-stamped centrepiece on upper board: coat of arms of Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Costumes of the Indian Army'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on rear turn-in: 'Robson & Co., Ltd'.
Makers and roles
Henry de Daubrawa (fl.1840 - 1861), artist Henry Martens (fl.1825 - d.1860), artist Captain Frederick Ainslie, original artist John Harris the younger (1791-1873), engraver (printmaker)