An 1848 publication of 13 lithographs of Bermuda by the military artist Edmund Gilling Hallewell has fetched £10,500 $16,000) at an auction in England.

Hallewell had trained as a topographical artist before he arrived at the Bermuda garrison in 1841. The keen yachtsman and horse racer served as private secretary to the Governor, Col. William Reid, and married his daughter Sophia.

It was Governor Reid who encouraged Mr. Hallewell to have a series of 13 lithographic prints published in London in 1848.

These are stylised prints loosely based on watercolours he had produced in 1846 and joined together to form three panoramas.

The artist also produced 'Views of the Bermudas' in 1842, a set of topographical watercolour panoramas of the Island's most commanding views.

Mr. Hallewell was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour after serving in the Crimean war.

He exhibited some of his works at the Royal Academy in London in 1853 and 1865.

He became commandant of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1864 where he died at the age of 47.

His original watercolours are preserved in the Bermuda National Collection of the Bermuda Archives and the Maritime Museum.

It is estimated that there are eight to ten sets of Hallewell's lithographs in private hands in Bermuda.

The set auctioned at Banbury, on December 2 was described as being "foxed" or spotty.

A good condition, coloured set can sell for as much as $60,000 and one such set is currently offered on dealer Anthony Pettit's website, www.anthonypettit.com