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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Decorative Arts & Collectables
• Sale Date:
  10 Sep 2022 ~ 10am (AEST) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 790
  11 Sep 2022 ~ 10am (AEST) - Session 2: Lots 791 - 1604
• Lot #:
  658
• Lot Description:
  Lieutenant Joseph Moore
  (British, active circa 1824)
  First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824-26
  Unframed/mounted Sheets 37 x 51cm. Mounts 46.5 x 55.5cm
• Provenance:
  Private Collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  A rare set of four finely hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by G. Hunt after original drawings by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, a senior officer of the 89th Regiment, published 1825 by Kingsbury & Co., London in his ‘Eighteen Views taken at and near Rangoon, and combined operations in the Birman Empire’, the most important pictorial documentation of the Anglo-Indian capture of Rangoon, as well as presenting a visual record of Burmese scenery, architecture and landscape. The plates are the first large-scale views of Burma, largely unknown to the British at the time. I.) The Attack upon the Stockades near Rangoon by Sir Archibald Campbell, KCB on the 28th of May 1824. (Plate 6); II.) The Storming of the Lesser Stockade at Kemmendine near Rangoon on the 10th of June 1824. (Plate 10); III.) Rangoon. The Position of part of the Army previous to attacking the Stockades on the 8th of July 1824. (Plate 12); IV.) Rangoon. The Storming of one of the principal Stockades on its inside on the 8th of July 1824. (Plate 15).
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 3,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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