Sujet
The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteer Challenge Trophy, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteer Challenge Trophy, 1881. 'The officers of the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers, at Great Yarmouth, have provided a handsome piece of plate for the annual challenge trophy, to be held for a year by the winning battery or corps in their brigade repository competition. The detachments receive prizes in money...this year, the successful competitors were the 1st and 2nd Batteries of Great Yarmouth. We give an Illustration of the trophy, which was modelled by Lieutenant G. Archard from drawings by Mr. H. D. Arnott, architect. The design represents a 64-pounder M.L.R. gun of 71 cwt., mounted on a temporary sleigh, built up of the stores used in the service in dismounting and shifting ordnance. The material used in the model (except the gun and cordage, which are of solid silver) is the same as that in actual service...The plateau upon which the gun and sleigh rest is supported by six cannon-shells, and festooned with parbuckle ropes. The base, of wainscot oak, with ebony reliefs, bears upon its several sides silver shields containing the arms of the different towns of Norfolk which are the head-quarters of the various batteries - viz., Norwich, Beccles, Lowestoft, and Aldborough'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_368
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
7,9Mo (504,5Ko) / 20,2cm x 9,7cm / 2390 x 1149 (300dpi)