IMAGE
Artist unknown :Lord Gifford and advance scouts on the Adansi Hills warned by an Ashanti priest [Illustrated London news, 28 February 1874]
- Date
- 1873 - 1874
- By
- Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
- Reference
- E-927-f-055-1
- Description
Illustrated London news site (http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/) has the following notes: "The second Ashanti War fought between 1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari, ruler of the Ashanti (or Asantehene), and the British. Both were trying to secure the coastal town of Elmina on the West Coast of Africa also known as the Gold Coast".
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, 175 x 237 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Engraving, 175 x 237 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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