FDA-E.2621-2016
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.2621-2016
Object type
Identification
Title
Floreat Etona!
Title Type
assigned by artist
Description
Printed image showing soliders on horseback charging, with their swords held aloft, during battle
Comments
This image captures the action during the Battle of Laing's Nek. The battle was fought at Laing's Nek (or Lang's Nek), a pass through the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa, south of Charlestown, during the First Boer War on 28 January 1881.
Other number
358
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 298mm
width (actual size): 217mm
width (actual size): 217mm
Inscription
Lettered 'Floreat Etona'
Production
Person
Butler, Elizabeth Southerden, 1846 - 1933 (Source artist)
Date
c.1894
