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Description: | Painting, oil on canvas, 'Farewell to the Light Brigade', by Robert Collinson, about 1870. Depicts a cavalry soldier in the uniform of a hussar regiment leaning from a railway carriage window to take his leave of a well-dressed woman on the platform. The woman, on the verge of tears, is clasping his hand in hers. Behind her a bearded guard holding a green flag raises his left hand to signal that the train is ready to depart. Just visible behind the guard, seated in the carriage, is another hussar reading a newspaper. At bottom left is a pile of luggage. Signed in red at bottom right "Robert Collinson, 1862 (?) & 187(?) " The dates are obscured by the frame. The frame is arched at the top. On the reverse is a label reading "Exhibition Folkestone, 1967, Exhibit No 28 from Museum of British Transport, London, Museum No 1052/52". Written in ink on the stretcher are "�200" and "1052/56 or 75/22/6". This painting is a later and much larger copy of Collinson's 'Ordered on Foreign Service' completed in 1862, of which versions were exhibited at the British Institution in 1863 and Royal Academy in 1864. At least two smaller and earlier versions survive, both dated 1863. One, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, depicts a hussar in a red tunic. Another, in a private collection and sold at Sotheby's in November 2008, is similar in composition to 'Farewell to the Light Brigade', but with the guard's flag and arm in slightly different positions. 'Farewell to the Light Brigade' also features a discarded letter and a luggage label at bottom right. The title of this painting explicitly refers to the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 during the Crimean War, in which the Hussars suffered heavy casualties. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | oil painting | Temporal: | 1870 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Collinson, Robert | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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