LADY BUTLER (AFTER)
THE REMAINS OF AN ARMY, JELLALABAD
£7,560
Auction: Lots 336 - 597 | 05 September at 10am
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91cm x 158cm (36in x 62in)
Footnote
Note: The original painting upon which this composition is based was gifted to the Tate Gallery, London, by Sir Henry Tate in 1897. The painting commemorates one of the worst disasters in British military history. In 1842, during the First Afghan War, the British Army in Kabul was forced to retreat sixty miles over snow-covered passes to the fort at Jellalabad, while being continually harried by the Afghans. When Dr. William Brydon, an Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army, arrived alone at the gates of Jellalabad it was thought he was the sole survivor of a force which had been some 16,000 strong. A few others eventually struggled through to the fort.