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The father of the regiment

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)
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
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Percival Serle, 1952
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
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