Presentation of Colours to the Second Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers at Lords Cricket Ground London 1797

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Size:	18.5 x 23.75 inches (framed)
Medium:	Photo-chromolithograph
Condition:	Fair condition; crease down the centre as per fold in original book

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Photo-chromolithograph of the Presentation of Colours to the Second Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers at Lords Cricket Ground London 1797. A fine rare photo-chromolithograph by W. Griggs, after the painting by Henry Mathews from the book “Relics of the Honourable East India Company” by George C. M. Birdwood and William Foster. Published in London, by B. Quaritch, in 1909. The image is entitled along the bottom on a black border with the words “To the Honourable the Superintending Military Committee of Field Officers of the Royal East India - Volunt II - This drawing of their seed regiment taken on the spot while receiving the colours from the hands of Lady Jane Dundas, (in Lords Cricket Ground, Mary le Bone) on the 27th day of July 1797, is Respectfully presented by their Most Obedient Humble Servant Henry Mathews.” At the top centre of the image is the Latin phrase “Labor improbus omnia vincit” which means “Steady work overcomes all”, although the word Labour has been obscured by the mount. The regiment stand in dress uniform on the left and on the right Lady Jane Dundas is presenting two flags. The flags are a set of colours belonging to the Royal East India Volunteers (REIV) formed by the East India Company in London during the French Wars to protect East India House and the Company warehouses ‘against hazard from insurrections and tumults’ and to assist the City government in times of disorder.
Lady Jane Dundas (née Charteris) (1811 - 1897), was the wife of Philip Dundas who was on the board of the East India Company and held a prominent position in Scotland's legal system before moving into politics. It appeared that Lady Dundas embroidered the flags herself that she is presenting in this image as her husband Henry Dundas wrote to Company director David Scott on 4 November 1796 that Lady Jane had taken a fancy that she ought to work a pair of colours for the East India Corps and that she needed instructions. Lady Jane presented the colours at three public ceremonies in April 1797, July 1797, and June 1799.
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lord's today is not on its original site; it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and 1814. His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands, and is what is shown in this image. While the country was under threat of invasion from France, the first Lord’s Ground in Dorset Square proved a popular place on which to stage military parades.
Henry Matthews was a British artist who was born in 1912.
William Griggs (1832-1911) was a photographer, and the inventor of an advanced chromolithography known as photo-chromolithography. He was associated with the India Office and made outstanding and very expensive book productions for which he produced coloured illustrations including many works about Indian and Oriental artefacts. Griggs did not patent or keep secret his invention, in fact quite the opposite he gave practical demonstrations of them to the London Photographic Society (14 April 1868). He was thus a pioneer in the wide diffusion of colour work and halftone block-making, and helped to bring about rapid cylindrical printing.

The artwork measures 12 x 19 inches without the frame and 18.5 x 23.75 inches with the frame. It is in fair condition with a crease down the centre as it was folded like this in the original book. Also, some further creases across the image as well as some holes have appeared.

Description

Photo-chromolithograph of the Presentation of Colours to the Second Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers at Lords Cricket Ground London 1797. A fine rare photo-chromolithograph by W. Griggs, after the painting by Henry Mathews from the book “Relics of the Honourable East India Company” by George C. M. Birdwood and William Foster. Published in London, by B. Quaritch, in 1909. The image is entitled along the bottom on a black border with the words “To the Honourable the Superintending Military Committee of Field Officers of the Royal East India - Volunt II - This drawing of their seed regiment taken on the spot while receiving the colours from the hands of Lady Jane Dundas, (in Lords Cricket Ground, Mary le Bone) on the 27th day of July 1797, is Respectfully presented by their Most Obedient Humble Servant Henry Mathews.” At the top centre of the image is the Latin phrase “Labor improbus omnia vincit” which means “Steady work overcomes all”, although the word Labour has been obscured by the mount. The regiment stand in dress uniform on the left and on the right Lady Jane Dundas is presenting two flags. The flags are a set of colours belonging to the Royal East India Volunteers (REIV) formed by the East India Company in London during the French Wars to protect East India House and the Company warehouses ‘against hazard from insurrections and tumults’ and to assist the City government in times of disorder.
Lady Jane Dundas (née Charteris) (1811 - 1897), was the wife of Philip Dundas who was on the board of the East India Company and held a prominent position in Scotland's legal system before moving into politics. It appeared that Lady Dundas embroidered the flags herself that she is presenting in this image as her husband Henry Dundas wrote to Company director David Scott on 4 November 1796 that Lady Jane had taken a fancy that she ought to work a pair of colours for the East India Corps and that she needed instructions. Lady Jane presented the colours at three public ceremonies in April 1797, July 1797, and June 1799.
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lord's today is not on its original site; it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and 1814. His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands, and is what is shown in this image. While the country was under threat of invasion from France, the first Lord’s Ground in Dorset Square proved a popular place on which to stage military parades.
Henry Matthews was a British artist who was born in 1912.
William Griggs (1832-1911) was a photographer, and the inventor of an advanced chromolithography known as photo-chromolithography. He was associated with the India Office and made outstanding and very expensive book productions for which he produced coloured illustrations including many works about Indian and Oriental artefacts. Griggs did not patent or keep secret his invention, in fact quite the opposite he gave practical demonstrations of them to the London Photographic Society (14 April 1868). He was thus a pioneer in the wide diffusion of colour work and halftone block-making, and helped to bring about rapid cylindrical printing.

The artwork measures 12 x 19 inches without the frame and 18.5 x 23.75 inches with the frame. It is in fair condition with a crease down the centre as it was folded like this in the original book. Also, some further creases across the image as well as some holes have appeared.

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Size:	18.5 x 23.75 inches (framed)
Medium:	Photo-chromolithograph
Condition:	Fair condition; crease down the centre as per fold in original book

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