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Accession Number | ART19684 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 26.9 x 18.2 cm (sheet) 21.1 x 12.9 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 This item is in the Public Domain |
A Warm Corner
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. Depicts mules pulling supply wagons caught in a grass fire, trying to escape from harness, near Reitz.