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The charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava [print].

Accession number
PML 147618.10
Published
London : John Blockley, [1854?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated sheet music cover.
"Written by Alfred Tennyson, Esq.; Composed by John Blockley."
Library's copy cropped at bottom with loss of imprint and statement of responsibility.
Forms part of a collection of 18 illustrated sheet music covers from the collection of Gordon N. Ray, the majority executed in chromolithography by the firm of Hanhart Lith.
Description
1 print : hand colored lithograph ; 313 x 246 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "Publ by John Blockley" in pen on verso.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration of soldiers charging on horseback, with two fallen men in the foreground.
Classification
Department