The Battle of Isandlwana

The Battle of Isandlwana, 22 January 1879.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right ‘Charles Fripp’, by Charles Edwin Fripp (1854-1906), 1885 (c), exhibited at the Royal Academy 1885 No 1065.
Originally exhibited as ‘The last stand at Isandhula’, this painting illustrates one of the worst disasters suffered by the British Army in the late nineteenth century.