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Veterans of War
Two recent additions to the Military Collection focus on veterans of military service in the first decade of the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars. The image below is actually from a panel of 15...
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Fort Custer Army Illustrators
A recent addition to the Military Collection is a fine gouache painting of soldiers playing cards in camp stateside during the period of the Second World War. In anticipation of war, Congress passed...
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Prussian Uniform Chart
A recent acquisition is a large painted chart depicting the entire range of uniforms in the Prussian Army of the late 18th century. It is somewhat similar to a chart in the Royal Collection...
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18th century Vues d’Optique
Sixty years ago, Anne Brown acquired five hand-colored engraved transparencies from a dealer in Maine. These date from the late 18th century and were probably published in Vienna. Some of them may have...
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An Officers Room
The military collection has recently acquired a rather interesting hand-colored engraving depicting British officers at rest. It was published in Dublin by William McCleary whose premises were located...
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Camp followers in the Peninsular War
In earlier wars and campaigns, it was not uncommon for wives and children of soldiers to march with the armies. This was the case during the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal fought from 1807 and...
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Alderman Kirkman’s Funeral Procession, 1780
A recent purchase is a broadside depicting the funeral procession of Alderman John Kirkman in London on Sunday, September 24, 1780. John Kirkman (1743-1780), Alderman for Cheap Ward, was a London...
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Archers piquiers
Among the manuscripts in the Military Collection is a bound volume entitled Le journal du sergent major de la place conquise sur les ennemis. This was acquired from William H. Schab, a dealer in rare...
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The Death of Wolfe
The Military Collection recently acquired a wash-drawing by the well-known English artist and illustrator, Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927). For many years, Woodville served as a senior studio...
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The Wounded of World War One
During the Great War, the allies suffered over 12 million wounded, the Central Powers over 8 million. As a subject of artistic inquiry, few artists ventured to tackle such a sensitive theme yet the...
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Sergeant, First Light Infantry of Providence
A recent addition to the Military Collection is a hand-colored tinted ambrotype of a sergeant of an antebellum militia company. It is in a glass and gold metal frame 14 x 11 cm. behind a brass mat all...
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Gillray and De Loutherburg in Valenciennes
In the late summer of 1793, the Swiss artist, Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812) was commissioned by the publishing brothers, Valentine and Rupert Green, and the Swiss printseller, Mechel, to...
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Hippolyte Bellangé: Napoleonic General Maison in Ghent (March26, 1815)
On March 26, 1814, General Nicholas Joseph Maison in command of the French 1st Corps retreated from Antwerp and entered the Belgian town of Ghent where he remained for five days. Unable to withstand...
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William Taylor: The Defence of Arrah House
During the sepoy rebellion, also known as the First War of Indian Independence, the house at Arrah situated in Bihar State in northeast India, was attacked in early July 1857 by mutineers from Dinapore...
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Saint Lucia. Royal Rangers 1797
A recent acquisition by the Military Collection is a small water-color on paper depicting two native soldiers in the West Indies standing in front of a guardhouse with diagonally set defensive stakes...
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Russian hussar and soldier, circa 1810
A recent acquisition is a hand-colored Japanese woodblock print showing a hussar and a private soldier of the Russian army, circa 1810. The hussar is dressed in a blue dolman jacket decorated with gold...
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Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch…by Herbert Rikli
A recent addition to the Military Collection is this first edition of a propagandized German illustrated children’s book published in Stuttart by Loewe in 1915. It contains 23 leaves of pages. The book...
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Insurrection de Francfort
A recent addition to the large collection of imagerie plates in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, is a colored wood-engraved broadside (40 x 60 cm) published by the well-known imagerie company...
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Views of the Bala Hissar
The Military Collection recently acquired two original albumen photographs with sepia toning, of British officers of the Royal Engineers (R.E.) in the Bala Hissar, Kabul, in June 1880. The men are...
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Image of Andersonville
The Military Collection recently acquired a lithograph commemorating the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Entitled Let us forgive but not forget, it was published in Chicago in 1884...
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