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C1855
Camp of the Light Division.
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Superb c.19th lithograph of the camp of the Light Division which was the light infantry division of the British Army deployed for the second time at Crimea. Its origins lay in “Light Companies” formed during the late c.18th to move … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Camp of the Light Division.
Date:
C1855
Artist:
Condition:
Minor small tears at right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph with one tint.
Image Size:
468mm
x 253mm
Paper Size:
552mm
x 365mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1855
Description:
Superb c.19th lithograph of the camp of the Light Division which was the light infantry division of the British Army deployed for the second time at Crimea.
Its origins lay in “Light Companies” formed during the late c.18th to move at speed over inhospitable terrain and protect a main force with skirmishing tactics. These units took advantage of then-new technology in the form of rifles, which allowed it to emphasise marksmanship, and were aimed primarily at disrupting and harassing enemy forces, in skirmishes before the main forces clashed. Formed in 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars,
 From William Simpson, The Seat of War in the East.Â
William Simpson (1823 - 1899)
During the Crimean War Simpson, became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by the printsellers Colnaghi & Son, to record the naval battles in the Baltic Sea and then went on to Balaklava in November 1854 to make accurate sketches on the spot. The drawings which he made during that terrible winter were submitted to Lord Raglan, sent home to England, and shown to Queen Victoria by the minister of war, the duke of Newcastle. After the fall of Sevastopol he was attached to the duke's party of exploration in Circassia. Eighty of his Crimean drawings were lithographed in The Seat of War in the East (2 volumes, 1855 6), which was dedicated with permission to Queen Victoria. When the original watercolours were exhibited at Colnaghi's gallery, Lord Elcho and other MPs called for them to be bought by the nation as a historic record of the war. On the advice of Sir Charles Eastlake, this proposal was rejected and the watercolours were sold off separately. Simpson returned to England with a brown beard long enough to button into his waistcoat, and he had an audience with the queen: he showed her his sketches and was much impressed by her grasp of every detail of the war. She commissioned The Queen Reviewing the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on their Return from the Crimea, 1856, and over the next thirty years was a steady patron for the painter. source Shapero Rare Books.
