SEVASTOPOL CRIMEAN PENINSULA 1855 SIMPSON ANTIQUE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC VIEW Ditch of the Bastion du Mвt. Description: Striking and highly decorative fine unusual original colored lithographic view of the external fortifications of this most impregnable of the Russian defensive works, near Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula. The sheet has been drawn by William Simpson and engraved by Edmund Walker. Source: William Simpson. The Seat of War in the East. Published: 1855-56, London, by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co. Colnaghi, Printed by Day and Son. Dйposй Paris: Goupil and Co. Leipzig: Otto Weigel. Reference: Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Volume 1, #237. Date: 1855 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 50,8 x 36,2 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet old original colored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Small holes repaired on the verso. Small tears. Plate partially reinforced on the verso. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmakers: Edmund Walker (1814-1882) has been a British painter and engraver. He began as a miniature painter on ivory, abandoning the practice as photography grew in popularity. He then turned to architectural draughtsmanship, making sketches of country seats and selling them to the owners. His views of the Thames Embankment (completed 1870) were exhibited at the Royal Academy, as were many of his architectural drawings. Sometime before 1851 he began working for the publishers Day & Son. He made watercolour views and lithographs of the interiors of the Great Exhibition and lithographed William Simpson’s sketches of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny for the firm. He reportedly ‘never fully recovered’ from the effect of the failing fortunes of Day & Son, late in his career. Walker died in 1882, aged 68. William Simpson (28 October 1823 - 17 August 1899) was a Scottish artist, war artist and war correspondent. -------------- Литография «Кювет бастиона Дю Мат" (Ditch of the Bastion du Mat) художник У. Симпсон 1856 Большая антикварная цветная литорафия с изображением одного из самых неприступных укреплений России, близ Севастополя, Крымский полуостров, Бастион Дю Мат Лист № 25 из издания Уильяма Симпсона (William Simpson) "The Seat of War in the East", которое было опубликовано в 1855-56 в Лондоне, издательством Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co. Colnaghi, отпечатано в типографии Day and Son. Лист был нарисован Уильямом Симпсоном (William Simpson) и выгравирован Эдмундом Уокером (Edmund Walker). Уильям Симпсон(1823-1899) (William Simpson) - шотландский художник-баталист и военный корреспондент. Симпсон прибыл на Крым слишком поздно и пропустил первые битвы Крымской войны, но смог сделать зарисовки событий перед падением Севастополя, а также во время всех ключевых сражений. Еще находясь на фронте, он отослал первые акварели в Лондон, где по ним незамедлительно были сделаны литографии. Всего было исполнено две тысячи копий полного комплекта литографий. Один из экземпляров этой литографии