A battlefield burial

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Accession Number ART19685
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 26.9 x 15.8 cm (sheet) 20 x 12.2 cm (image)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and ink with wash, heightened with white
Maker Hardy, Norman H.
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made c.1901
Conflict South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Period 1900-1909
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

One of a series of illustrations reproduced in a book by Frank Wilkinson, 'Australia at the front: A colonial view of the Boer War', John Long, London, 1901. Hardy based his illustrations on sketches and photographs by the author who was a special war correspondent in South Africa. Burial on the veldt of Privates Biddle and Bennett, chaplain Father Patrick (wearing surplice and stole) officiating, fellow soldiers standing around.