The Colours: Advance Of The Scots Guards At The Alma, 1899

BAL3952 The Colours: advance of the Scots Guards at the Alma, 1899 (oil on canvas) by Butler, Lady (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) (1846-1933); 98x155.6 cm; Private Collection; (add. info.: Battle of Alma; Battle of the Alma; Crimean War; four of the first Victoria Crosses won during battle; British, French and Turkish forces defeated Russians; depicts Captain Lindsay (later Lord Wantage) of the Scots Fusilier Guards, holding aloft the regimental colours after a Russian onslaught had broken the lines of the Royal Welch Fusiliers); English, out of copyright