Title

Illustrations of the War in Denmark: barrack life of Danish soldiers: Sunday morning, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Illustrations of the War in Denmark: barrack life of Danish soldiers: Sunday morning, 1864. Engraving '...illustrating the barrack life of the Danish soldiers at Sündsmark, in the Isle of Alsen, while they were kept there to be employed in the defence of Sonderburg and Düppel. The sketches, full of life and humour, were taken by Mr. Simon [sic?] Simonsen, our Danish Artist, about a month since - in fact, on Sunday, April 17, the day before the capture of the Düppel redoubts. One of these scenes shows us the various attitudes of the men, in front of a barrack-hut, during the leisure hours of that Sunday morning ; some of them are under the hands of the barber to have their hair cut or to be shaved; some are sipping a glass of wine at the table; one is washing at a tub; another is drying his shirt and trousers on the roof; one is mending his boots, one reading, and one writing a letter: one smoking his pipe, and one sleeping on the grass. To the left we see a huckster in his cart offering eatables and drinkables for sale'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM24A26_071

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

32,1Mb (3,0Mb) / 12,9in x 9,6in / 3881 x 2889 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors drink people male job man men cutting shopping shop shops arts country drinking washing Denmark Danish art guy occupation rest reading resting laundry British color eating mending table hair military war location century Britain profession newspapers press soldiers soldier print furniture concept barber haircut B&W al fresco barber shop barbershop engraved engraving danes dane hairdressing Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black barber's shop nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN outside newspaper Unknown R&R rest and recreation rest and recuperation rest and relaxation 19th-century Second Schleswig War Dano-Prussian War German Danish War Prusso-Danish War Niels Simonsen Simonsen Niels