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Sketches in South Africa by our special artist, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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Sketches in South Africa by our special artist, 1881. First Boer War. 'Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior...sends us the Illustrations now engraved of several incidents of the late campaign on the Transvaal border of Natal...1. Officers' Graves at Bronkers' Spruit. 2. Soldiers' Graves at Bronkers' Spruit; View towards Middelburg. 3. Bronkers' Spruit; Position of Rear-guard of 94th Regiment, looking towards Pretoria. 4. Selling a Deceased Soldier's Kit in the Camp at Mount Prospect, Natal. 5. Royal Artillery crossing River by Pontoon Bridge, near Newcastle, Natal...The scene on the river, near Newcastle, where a detachment of the Royal Artillery is represented in the act of crossing by a pontoon bridge supported on empty beer-barrels, shows one of the expedients for conducting the movement of troops in a rough country like the interior of South Africa...the selling of deceased soldiers' kits by auction, which is a customary practice of military life, is [one of the subjects] of our Illustration. In this instance the pair of boots and other articles of personal equipment, put up for sale to the best bidder, had belonged to a man who was killed on Majuba Hill'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_402

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,0Mo (4,1Mo) / 28,3cm x 41,5cm / 3346 x 4906 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river Africa animal female women woman people male technology man men animals South Africa horses horse sell selling arts art trade guy bridge bridges clothes British equipment geography structure death uniform dress parasols parasol military war cannon cannons Armed Forces century seller cemetery grave graves graveyard Britain officer newspapers press soldiers soldier clothing print accessory accessories concept battle newcastle kit riverbank APPAREL B&W killed Army warfare engraved engraving pith helmet 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services logistics armaments belongings British Army KwaZulu-Natal nineteenth century pith helmets The Print Collector Battle of Majuba Hill Boer Wars geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN topee wood engraving ILN military camp pontoon bridge Melton Prior newspaper Unknown 1880-1881 First Boer War topees Prior Melton army officer 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News killed in action army officers