File:Alphonse de Neuville - The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879 - Google Art Project.jpg

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Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville: The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879

Artist



Alternative names	Alphonse de Neuville
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	31 May 1836	19 May 1885
Location of birth/death	Saint-Omer	Paris
Work period	1850 –1885
Work location	Paris
Authority file	: Q1494309 VIAF: 78770367 ISNI: 0000000123211116 ULAN: 500024298 LCCN: nr91017095 NLA: 35220290 WorldCat

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Title

The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879

Object type

painting

Genre

history painting

Description

English: Painting of the Battle of Rorke's Drift which took place in Natal during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. De Neuville based the painting on eye witness accounts and it depicts several events of the battle occurring at once. Defenders depicted in the painting:

Lieutenant John Chard (to the right at the barrier in pale breeches with rifle)
Corporal Scammell of the Natal Native Contingent incorrectly shown in the uniform of the 24th or Corporal William Allen (handing cartridges to Chard)
Corporal Ferdinand Schiess (wearing a bandoleer and stabbing a Zulu at the barrier with his bayonet)
Chaplain George Smith (bearded man handing out cartridges from a haversack)
Acting Assistant Commissary James Dalton (sat in foreground with a wounded shoulder)
Surgeon James Reynolds (attending to Dalton's wound)
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (standing in the centre of the painting pointing to his left)
Private Frederick Hitch (standing behind Bromhead)
Private Henry Hook (carrying Private John Connolly on his back away from the burning hospital)
Assistant Commissary Walter Dunne (to the left holding a biscuit box)

(Sources: David, Saul [2005] Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 ISBN 9780141015699; Knight, Ian [1996] Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole' ISBN 9781855325067)

Date

1880

Medium

oil on canvas oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 2,610 mm (102.75 in); width: 3,770 mm (12.36 ft)

Collection

Art Gallery of New South Wales

	Native name	Art Gallery of New South Wales
	Location	The Domain
	Coordinates	33° 52′ 07.32″ S, 151° 13′ 01.2″ E
	Established	1880 / 1874
	Website	www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
	Authority file	: Q705551 VIAF: 127414571 ISNI: 0000000122486329 ULAN: 500267593 LCCN: n50061030 NLA: 36542103 WorldCat

Current location

Level Ground level (Details of level on Google Art Project) room 19th + 20th c European art (Details of room on Google Art Project)

Accession number

735

Object history

Fine Art Society PLC (England, estab. 1876), London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Fine Art Society 1882. 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift 1879' was commissioned by the Fine Art Society.

Inscriptions

Signed and dated l.r., black oil "A de Neuville / 1880".

Notes

More info at museum site

References

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/735/

Source/Photographer

5AFi-BKNCeU_VA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

The author died in 1885, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
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