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Battle of Ferozeshah (2). Lithograph after an original sketch by Prince Waldemar of Prussia and published in 'In Memory of the Travels of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India 1844-1846' (Vol.II)
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Battle of Ferozeshah. Lithograph after an original sketch by Prince Waldemar of Prussia [Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar von Preußen; Berlin, 2 August 1817 – Münster, 17 February 1849] and published in 'In Memory of the Travels of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India 1844-1846' (Vol.II). 104 fine tinted lithographed plates by Bellermann, A. Haun and others after sketches and drawings by Prince Waldemar and others (one double page) across two volumes of the work.
Based on Waldemar von Hohenzollern's composition, Hermann Kretzschmer (1811-1890) made a drawing before 1855 (Fig.Nm. XIX 3396/42) - a design for the lithograph "Schlacht von Ferozeschah", later made by Ferdinand Bellerman (1814-1889), printed at Mercier's lithographic workshop in Berlin, for the publication "Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar nach Indien in den Jahren 1844-1846" (2 volumes, Berlin 1855). Cf. Fig.Nm.XIX 3395/1 [Piotr Borusowski].
Published: Berlin, Deckersche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, 1853. (Gedruckt in der Deckerschen Geheimen Ober-hofbuchdruckerei)
Foreword written by Alexander von Humboldt. Of the more than one hundred lithograph plates from sketches by the Prince, more than four-fifths are by Ferdinand Bellermann, and the remainder by Hermann Kretzschmer; they were lithographed by Bellermann, Tempeltei, Haun and Klaus--Vorwort.
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