India.- Royal Bengal Engineers.- Sketch Plan of the
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India.- Royal Bengal Engineers.- Sketch Plan of the City of Lucknow, large manuscript map of the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh, pen and inks, watercolour wash, traces of pencil, on wove paper, sheet approx. 660 x 1000 mm (26 x 39 1/2 in), with owner's ink inscription of William Crommelin in the upper right corner, mounted on linen, several large tears within the map with some losses, numerous nicks and tears to extremities, surface dirt, damp-stains, unframed, [circa 1860]; together with a lithographed map by H.M Smith, No. 2 Plan of the Operations Against Lucknow during the month of March 1858, mounted on various [?]Indian handmade papers, old folds, some surface abrasion and adhesive issues, damp-stains and the lower right affixed with old paper obscuring the map, in general poor condition with numerous issues, unframed, published by Surveyor Generals Office Calcutta, 1858 (2)
⁂ The manuscript map bears the collectors' signature of Major William Arden Crommelin, of the Bengal Engineers, later Chief Engineer of Oudh.
⁂ The manuscript map bears the collectors' signature of Major William Arden Crommelin, of the Bengal Engineers, later Chief Engineer of Oudh.
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