Stanley, Henry Morton--Riou, Edouard, artist.

comprising: The fight with the Avisibba Cannibals; The Relief of Nelson and Survivors at starvation Camp; Gymnastics in a forest clearing; Our first experiences with Mazamboni's people - View from Nzera Kum Hill; A Phalanx Dance by Mazamboni warriors; Entering Andikumu; The Scouts discover the Pigmies carrying away the case of Ammunition; Starvation camp: serving out milk and butter for broth; Baby rhinoceros showing fight in camp; and Our experiences in Usukuma.

pencil, pen and ink and grey wash on tinted paper, all signed 'Riou', each 105 x 162mm., mounted in two frames and glazed

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904); thence by descent; sale: The Henry Morton Stanley Collection, Christie's 24 September 2002, lot 87

A fine set of 10 original drawings by Edouard Riou (1833-1900), used for plates 5, 7, 8, 11 and 14 in volume 1 and plates 17, 18, 19, 31 and 33 in volume 2 of Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, In Darkest Africa (1890). The detail in these original wash drawings is much finer than in the reproduced plates in the published work.