Sujet

The Transvaal War: our special artist on his way to the front, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Transvaal War: our special artist on his way to the front, 1881. British war correspondent during the First Boer War in what is now South Africa. 'Our 'Special Artist, as a lonely traveller on horseback, ''remote, unfriended, solitary, slow," is seen making his way to the front, over those rough and hilly roads of Natal, which he traversed in his way to the Zulu campaign two years ago. He is twenty miles from the nearest posting-house or shelter, overtaken by a violent rainstorm; and we trust that the readers of this Journal, for whose entertainment he is put to such hardships, will not be unmindful of their obligations to Mr. Prior'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A42_149

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

10,4Mo (747,5Ko) / 19,8cm x 13,2cm / 2341 x 1556 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather animal job animals South Africa horses horse riding rider riders arts country art occupation British raining rain artist horseman horsemen war location century Britain profession rainy newspapers press print concept B&W discomfort hardship journalist engraved engraving journalism 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century war correspondent The Print Collector Boer Wars Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Prior 1880-1881 Melton Prior Melton First Boer War Transvaal War 19th-century The Illustrated London News