SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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HAYES, M. Angelo
Walker
Armee Anglaise [The British Army]

A very rare series of coloured lithographs of mounted British army officers. Shows groups from various regiments, the Dragoon Guards, the Lancers, the Horse Artillery, The Foot Artillery etc.

Published
London & Dublin, Henry Graves & Co. & A.L.E. Sage, 1846.
References
Bobins II 354; Index to British Military Costume Prints, 1500-1914, 396; Strickland Dictionary of Irish Artists I, p.461-466.
Plates
15
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
London & Dublin, Henry Graves & Co. & A.L.E. Sage, 1846.
Ref
1643

Folio (538 x 364mm). Later red half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed, spine with some repairs, marginal finger-soiling. 15 lithographic plates coloured by a contemporary hand after Hayes, lithographed by Walker, heightened by gum-arabic, with tissue guards. Plates formed of a central scene surrounded by a border of military scenes and single figures. Each plate represents a large central scene, always containing an officer on horseback, surrounded by smaller military scenes and single figures surmounted with a cartouche of the arms and standards of each regiment, and titled and numbered within a shield at the bottom of the plate centre. Cavalry of the Guard, Dragoons, Hussars, Lancers, horse and foot artillery and others are all depicted. The artist (Hayes) was a native of Waterford in Ireland, and is chiefly known for pictures involving horses, at the racers, or in military settings as here. Only 2 copies recorded at auction, and no library copies found in WorldCat. Coloured plates in order: 1. The Cavalry of the Guard. 2. The Dragoon Guards. 3. The Dragoons. 4. The Light Dragoons. 5. The Hussars. 6. The Lancers. 7. The Horse Artillery. 8. The Foot Artillery. 9. The Infantry of the Guard. 10. The Fusiliers. 11. The Light Infantry. 12. The Highlanders. 13. The Rifles. 14. The Line. 15. The Staff.