The Field of Isandlwana Revisited by Melton Prior (1845-1910), in The Illustrated London News (13 July 1879), 29. Wood engraving. Prior was the newspaper’s war correspondent from about 1873 and was one of the few artists who visited the site of the battle. In his drawing he makes no attempt to idealize or to show it as anything other than a chaos of broken and burnt-out forms. The sketchy lines capture the disorder and convey a genuine sense of dismay, an effect that goes well beyond the reach of conventional pictorial journalism: expressionism, we might say, in place of realism. — Simon Cooke, Ph.D.
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Created 27 February 2025