IMAGE
Otago & Southland Contingent. The Pollard's benefit matinee. "The belle of New York". Princess Theatre Dunedin, Feb 24th 1900. J Wilkie & Co., Dunedin [Programme cover. 1900]
- Date
- 1900
- By
- Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920
- Reference
- Eph-B-WAR-SA-1900-03
- Description
Programme cover shows an illustration by R Hawcridge of a mounted soldier blowing a bugle, in front of a New Zealand flag. The verso of the front cover shows "Sketches in camp", also by Hawcridge, a series of illustrations of army camp life: Watering the horses, Jumping test, Bringing his dinner, Morning toilet, Shooting test, The farrier, A question of method. The facing illustration, titled "Where will Kruger be when his light 'Bobs' out?" shows a caricature of Kruger as a candle being snuffed out by "The bell of New York" held by a military man (possibly Field Marshal Lord Roberts). portrait photographs of Tom Pollard and Mr W O'Sullivan, details of the New Zealand and British flags, with ferns, roses, shamrocks and thistles representing Britain and New Zealand.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Chromolithograph on programme cover, in two pieces, each 260 x 125 mm.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the South African War. 1899-1902]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Chromolithographs, Theatre programmes, Chromolithograph on programme cover, in two pieces, each 260 x 125 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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