English: 'Gruppe von Siekhs' (Group of Sikhs) in the English camp, near Kaffur as representative of the Lahore Durbar (unpainted). 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.

The drawing is a prototype of the lithograph "Gruppe von Siekhs", made by Bellermann, 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. description to object inv. no. Fig.Nm.XIX 3396/1

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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