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First in a multi-volume series, Soldiers of the Queen, Volume 1, Home Service features high resolution reproductions of Victorian-era British military photographic portraits. Selected from the extensive soldiersofthequeen.com collection, each portrait is accompanied by a detailed newly researched biography of the subject. Volume 1 showcases photographs taken in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Each 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch volume will contain fifty pages with 40 photographic plates and illustrations.
Rudyard Kipling's classic 1890 poem Gunga Din supplemented with a selection
of rare photographic portraits of British and Indian soldiers who served in Queen
Victoria's Indian realm. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed
biographical sketch of the pictured soldier or description of the subject. 60 pages8 1/2 by 11 inches with more than 30 illustrations.
Isandlwana Commemorative Coffee Mug - this mug feature Charles Fripp's painting the last stand of the 24th Foot at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 during the opening stages of the Anglo-Zulu War.
Rorke's Drift Commemorative Coffee Mug - this mug features Lady Elizabeth Butler's epic rendition of the action at Rorke's Drift, Natal Colony on 22-23 January 1879.
"All That Was Left of Them" - this amazinging detailed coffee mug reproduces Richard Caton-Woodville's dramatic depiction of the last stand of "C" Troop of the 17th Lancers at Modderfontien Farm on 17 September 1901, during the Anglo-Boer War.
A new "signature" edition of Lady Elizabeth Butler's epic 1880 painting The Defense of Rorke's Drift.
The original painting depicts determined defense of the mission station at Rorke's Drift, Natal Colony by a handful of British and colonial troops. Arrayed against them were some 4000 equally determined and courageous Zulu warriors looking to follow up on their crushing defeat of some 1,500 of Queen Victoria's troops at Isandlwana earlier that same day.
In this edition, Butler's painting is augmented by photographic portraits of the two senior British officers present - Lt. John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Lt. Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment. Each portrait is flanked by a facsimile of their signatures which were scanned from original examples in the SoftheQ collection. Also depicted are the helmet plates of the Royal Engineers and the 24th Regiment and examples of the Victoria Cross and the 1877-79 South Africa Medal.
This print measures 24 by 36 inches overall including margins. Naturally, the SoftheQ watermarks will not appear on purchased prints.
Fully digitally restored and color corrected, this Soldiers of the Queen edition of All that Was Left of Them would enhance any room in which it is displayed.
Based on a painting by Richard Canton Woodville, the print depicts the last stand of C Squadron, 17th Lancers at Modderfontein during the Anglo-Boer War.
This print measures 27 by 36 inches overall including margins. Naturally, the "SoftheQ" watermarks will not appear on purchased prints.
This poster is a digitally restored and updated facsimile of the famous 1896 chromolithograph Custer's Last Fight that depicts the defeat of the 7th U.S. Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn in 1876.
Sioux and Cheyenne warriors under Tasunke Witco (Crazy Horse) and Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) won the greatest victory by Native Americas over U.S.forces in history when they overwhelmed Custer and five companies of the 7th Cavalry at a place they called the Greasy Grass.
The print measures 36 inches wide by 28 inches high and is an outstanding alternative to the very expensive, and generally poor conditioned originals. Naturally, the "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased prints.
A newly digitally restored edition of a little-known 1883 chromolithographic print depicting the agonizing final moments of George Armstrong Custer and the remnants of his command at Little Bighorn, Montana in June 1876.
The original lithograph was based on aa 1883 painting titled Custer's Last Rally by George Mulvaney.
This print measures 26 inches wide by 17 inches high overall. The "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased prints.
An incredibly beautiful map depicting the British Empire at its greatest extent. The map was part of a special supplement to a 1937 edition of the Christian Science Monitor commemorating the coronation of George VI.
The print measures 32 inches wide by 24 inches high overall. The "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased items.
Victorian cartographic splendor at its height, this map of the British Empire as it was in 1886 was produced as a special supplement to The Graphic that same year. The map was part of the upcoming 1887 commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Almost impossible to find today, an original example recently sold at auction for over 1100 GBP.
The print measures 41 inches wide by 33 inches high overall. The "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased items.
Beautifully realized, this c. 1902 Roll of Honour of the 8th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, 4th Battalion, Derbyshire Contingent, lists the members of the 8th Company prior to the unit's departure to South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. A superb example Victorian military-themed graphic design, this poster is large, very close in size to the next-to-impossible to find original.
The print measures 41 inches wide by 33 inches high overall. The "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased items.
A commemoration of the men of the sea services from Soldiers of the Queen is this amazingly detailed cutaway sectional view of the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign. Originally a special supplement to a 1904 edition of The Boys Own Paper, this print shows the inner workings of a late-Victorian Royal Navy warship in all its glorious complexity.
The print measures 36 inches wide by 15 inches high overall. The "SoftheQ" watermark will not appear on purchased items.