"Listed for the Connaught Rangers": recruiting in Ireland
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (Lausanne 1846 - Gormanston Castle 1933)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
78.5 x 109.0 cm
Order this imageCollection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 216469
Summary
Print, photogravure, "Listed for the Connaught Rangers": recruiting in Ireland by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler (Lausanne 1846 - Gormanston Castle 1933). Signed in pencil. Elizabeth Butler. The original is in the Bury Art Gallery. Dated 1878. Depicts two Irish peasants in traditional dress being marched out of a Kerry glen by a recruiting party of a sergeant, private and two drummer boys of the 88th (Connaught Rangers) in the 1870s.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (Lausanne 1846 - Gormanston Castle 1933)