Théodore Géricault, detail from Raft of the Medusa (1819).
The Fight For The Standard
- Richard Ansdell, 1847
Napoleon Bonaparte and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
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Private Byrne, one of three members of the 21st Lancers who earned the Victoria Cross for their actions at Omdurman.
(Navy and Army Illustrated)
Cycle of Scenes of Living Skeletons. Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, 19th century.
“Here again we have the uniform of an officer in peace and war—swagger and gold lace on the one side, and stern simplicity and kharki on the other.”
From “Punch Among the Planets,” 1890
{Germania auf der Wacht am Rein - 1873}
Peace.
Honoré Daumier, from Daumier, peintre et lithographe (Daumier, painter and lithographer), by Raymond Escholier, Paris, 1923.
(Source: archive.org)
Showing the Troops by Hippolyte Bellangé and Adrien Dauzats, 1862.
British cavalryman carousing, 1826
