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Alphonse de Neuville: The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879  wikidata:Q20441397 reasonator:Q20441397
Artist
Alphonse de Neuville  (1835–1885)  wikidata:Q1494309 s:fr:Auteur:Alphonse de Neuville
 
Alphonse de Neuville
Alternative names
Alphonse de Neuville
Description French painter
Date of birth/death 31 May 1835 Edit this at Wikidata 19 May 1885 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Saint-Omer Edit this at Wikidata rue Brémontier Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1850 Edit this at Wikidata–1885 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1494309

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Title
The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879
title QS:P1476,en:"The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879"
label QS:Len,"The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Painting of the Battle of Rorke's Drift which took place in Natal during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. De Neuville based the painting on eye witness accounts and it depicts several events of the battle occurring at once. Defenders depicted in the painting:
  • Lieutenant John Chard (to the right at the barrier in pale breeches with rifle)
  • Corporal Scammell of the Natal Native Contingent incorrectly shown in the uniform of the 24th or Corporal William Allen (handing cartridges to Chard)
  • Corporal Ferdinand Schiess (wearing a bandoleer and stabbing a Zulu at the barrier with his bayonet)
  • Chaplain George Smith (bearded man handing out cartridges from a haversack)
  • Acting Assistant Commissary James Dalton (sat in foreground with a wounded shoulder)
  • Surgeon James Reynolds (attending to Dalton's wound)
  • Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (standing in the centre of the painting pointing to his left)
  • Private Frederick Hitch (standing behind Bromhead)
  • Private Henry Hook (carrying Private John Connolly on his back away from the burning hospital)
  • Assistant Commissary Walter Dunne (to the left holding a biscuit box)
(Sources: David, Saul [2005] Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 ISBN 9780141015699; Knight, Ian [1996] Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole' ISBN 9781855325067)
Date 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 2,610 mm (102.75 in); width: 3,770 mm (12.36 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,2610U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,3770U174789
institution QS:P195,Q705551
Current location
Level Ground level (Details of level on Google Art Project) room 19th + 20th c European art (Details of room on Google Art Project)
Accession number
735
Object history Fine Art Society PLC (England, estab. 1876), London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Fine Art Society 1882. 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift 1879' was commissioned by the Fine Art Society.
Inscriptions Signed and dated l.r., black oil "A de Neuville / 1880".
Notes More info at museum site
References https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/735/ Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer 5AFi-BKNCeU_VA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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