Engraving THE RETURN FROM INKERMANN After Lady Butler

Engraving THE RETURN FROM INKERMANN After Lady Butler
Large Original Antique Engraving THE RETURN FROM INKERMANN after Lady Elizabeth Southerden Thompson Butler (1846-1933) | Engraved by engraved by T W Davey Inscribed lower center (partially obscured by matting): THE RETURN FROM INKERMANN, Sunday November 5th 1854 After the original painting by Lady Butler "It was a glorious day for the British Army" (Extract from Lord Raglans despatch) | Inscribed lower right margin: "By permission of the Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond St, London" | Depicts a British column of exhausted and wounded soldiers of the Coldstream Guards and the 20th East Devonshire regiment returning from the heights of Inkerman, 5th November 1854, during the Crimean War | Matted and framed under glass | Approx. Size: 38" W x 26.5" H | Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter, who specialized in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars. The Roll Call (purchased by Queen Victoria), The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at Waterloo (Leeds Art Gallery), are among her notable works. She wrote about her military paintings in an autobiography published in 1922: "I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism". She married Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler.