A veldt fire Accession Number: ART19676

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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. Men of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles are shown galloping through a grass fire against Boer positions defending Johannesburg during the South African War 1899-1902.

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Accession Number
ART19676
Artist
Norman H. Hardy
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: brush and ink with wash heightened with white, with pencil
Measurement
Overall: 27 cm x 14.6 cm
Medium
pencil, brush and ink with wash, heightened with white
Date Made
c.1901
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
donated 1958
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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