Live Auction 4826Travel, Science and Natural History
F.R. (fl. 1826)
Lot 260

F.R. (fl. 1826)

Siege of Makuba, River Sherbro; and Makuba, Sierra Leone

Closed25 April 2012

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GBP 625

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F.R. (fl. 1826)
Siege of Makuba, River Sherbro; and Makuba, Sierra Leone
the first titled on the mount, the second signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'F.R. Makuba 19:Feby. 1826' ( in the lower margin)
watercolour on paper
3¼ x 4in. (8.3 x 10.2cm.) and similar (2)

Specialist note

The two watercolours describe the British suppressing the slave trade in Sierra Leone in and action led by Major General Charles Turner, as described by Turner in detail in a letter to Lord Bathurst dated 2 March 1826, for which see Cameo , Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 32-6.