'We Sat Tight' B.P.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 200 x 140mm.
A semi-caricature portrait of Robert Baden-Powell sitting on a keg of gunppowder, apparently writing his despatch of November 20th 1899, duringthe 217-day Seige of Mafeking (1899) in which he which he wrote "The enemy's sentries drew us out Saturday by making a show of going away and leaving a gun, apparently in a state of being dismantled. Our scounbts found the enemy in force. So we sat tight".
[Ref: 8436] £120.00
Etching. 200 x 140mm.
A semi-caricature portrait of Robert Baden-Powell sitting on a keg of gunppowder, apparently writing his despatch of November 20th 1899, duringthe 217-day Seige of Mafeking (1899) in which he which he wrote "The enemy's sentries drew us out Saturday by making a show of going away and leaving a gun, apparently in a state of being dismantled. Our scounbts found the enemy in force. So we sat tight".
[Ref: 8436] £120.00