| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART19670 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 27 x 15 cm (sheet); 22.3 x 13 cm (image) |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | brush and ink with wash, heightened with white, with pencil on paper |
| Maker |
Hardy, Norman H. |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
| Date made | c.1901 |
| Conflict |
South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War) |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Between two fires
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. It depicts Boer prisoners, guarded by the Royal Canadian Regiment, throwing boxes of ammunition on a fire near Douglas. The author writes: 'What more rational than that the rebels should be made to destroy their surplus cartridges in the flames...The men didn't wait to watch the effect. They threw the boxes in and bolted for their lives.'