Paintings Reproductions The defence of rorkes drift, 1880 by Alphonse Marie Adolphe De Neuville (1836-1885, France) | WahooArt.com

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"The defence of rorkes drift"

Alphonse Marie Adolphe De Neuville (i) - Oil, Oil On Canvas, Canvas (i) - 103 x 148 cm - 1880 - (Rorke's Drift (Natal Province, South Africa)) (i), Alphonse Marie Adolphe De Neuville (i) - Oil, Oil On Canvas, Canvas (i) - 103 x 148 cm - 1880 - (Rorke's Drift (Natal Province, South Africa)) (i), Alphonse Marie Adolphe De Neuville (i) - Oil, Oil On Canvas, Canvas (i) - 103 x 148 cm - 1880 - (Rorke's Drift (Natal Province, South Africa)) (i)
Alphonse Marie Adolphe De Neuville was a military artist who accompanied the army and painted scenes from many confrontations. The Defence of Rorkes Drift is one of the scenes he depicted from the Zulu War that was fought between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The painting shows many injured soldiers, smoke drifts from burning houses blending into the hills in the background. The Zulu force had slaughtered 900 British soldiers as they defended their land. It occurred when the British imperial presence in South Africa was the strongest. At the time, the battle was justified by the British as their “rightful defence of its own colonial prestige”. He bases his images on reports and survival accounts. Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney paid a large sum to acquire The Defence of Rorke's Drift and it was visited by fifty thousand people who paid to see the depiction.





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