Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
97.2 × 216.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1884
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.l.: ET (monogram) / E · T / 1875
Accession Number
p.309.9-1
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
History and Legend Human Figures Military and Warfare
Subjects (specific)
attacks (armed conflicts) battlefields battles Belgium (nation) firearms infantries military uniforms Napoleonic Wars (European history, 1800-1815)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Charles J. Galloway, 1875; his collection, until 1884; included in the Galloway sale, Christie’s, London, 28 May 1881, no. 61 (passed in); purchased from Galloway, on the advice of A. Taddy Thompson, for the National Gallery of Victoria, 1884.
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1875, no. 853; Manchester, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, Leeds, Nottingham and Leicester 1875–76; Fine Art Society, London, 1877 (with The Roll Call, Balaclava and Inkerman); First Interchange Exhibition, Loan Collection of oil paintings, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, 1894, no. 2; Loan Collection of Pictures, Guildhall, London 1900, no. 15; Queensland Art Fund: Exhibition of Pictures from the Southern States, Brisbane, 1930, no. 31; Picture of the Month, NGV, Melbourne, 1974; Women Artists 1550–1950, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 98; Lady Butler, Battle Artist, National Army Museum, London, 1987–8, no. 21; The First Fifty Years: Nineteenth Century British Art from the Gallery Archives, NGV, Melbourne, 1992; Hidden Treasures, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 1992.
Frame
Original, maker unknown