Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Thomas MORTEN (draughtsman)
The father of the regiment
(1861)
illustration p. 71 for the poem The Father of the Regiment. (An old Grenadier's Story of an Episode in the Retreat of Napoleon's "Grande Armée" from Moscow.) by Walter Thornbury in Once a Week vol. 5, no. 107, published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 13 July 1861

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
12.9 × 11.5 cm (image) 13.1 × 11.7 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Percival Serle, 1952

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: SWAIN Sc.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: TM (monogram)

Accession Number
2929.188-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Military and Warfare

Subjects (specific)
armies battlefields battles illustrations (layout features) injury (medical condition) men (male humans) poems soldiers

Movements
Victorian