Overall: 66cm (26in) x 79cm (31in)
Watercolour on paper. Panoramic depiction of the Battle of the Alma fought on the 20 September 1854 by Lieutenant Bredin, RA after an eyewitness sketch by Major John Adye, RA while serving on Lord Raglan’s staff, complete with manuscript key. Contained in period glazed oak frame.
General Sir John Miller Adye, GCB, RA (1819-1900) was the son of and grandson of Royal Artillery officers. He passed out of the RMA, Woolwich in 1836. Promoted Captain in 1846, he served in Crimea as brigade-major and assistant adjutant-general of artillery (awarded CB, brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel), and was a subject of Robert Fenton’s reportage. the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Egyptian War. He was later a popular and pragmatic Governor of Gibraltar from 1883 to 1886.