Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Charge of the Light Brigade. [1869?]

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Title

Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Charge of the Light Brigade. [1869?]

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Shows a wounded cavalry soldier slightly slumped back on his horse, with his sword dangling from the strap at his right wrist. Another riderless horse is in the left background. Text of poem also in Heaphy's hand. Tennyson read of the event in December 1854, and wrote the poem, which was published on 9 December 1854. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy; Recto - beneath image - (In pencil, probable written in 1926): Done by Chas Heaphy (the Artist and Surveyor in N.Z

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Format

Image

Date created

1860 - 1854 - 1869

Creator

Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 / Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961 / Grahame, Anne, -1869

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23195192

Locations

Crimea

Related subjects

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 / Battles / Cavalry / Crimean War, 1853-1856 / Horses / Swords / Crimea

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