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Drawn by R.C. Woodville from Notes supplied by Officers present to our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior. Folding engraved plate, 22½" x 29". Light browning, folds, split at a fold, old paper tape repair verso, else very good. Extra Supplement to the Illustrated London News, May 14,

"Prior arrived at Majuba "just in time to see the remains of the troops coming down from the summit in hasty retreat" (Campaigns of a War Correspondent). He got a careful description of events from [John] Cameron [of the Standard], whom the Boers had released as a non-combatant... "Dear Old Cameron was not much of an artist, but he gave me a lot of notes and rough sketches of the fight, which I was able to work up under his guidance and forward to England."" [Hodgson The War Illustrators p.115] The descriptive caption text includes the identification, "The figure pressing forward on the extreme left of the picture is Mr. J.A. Cameron, Special Correspondent of the Standard. Prior was to witness Cameron's death four years later at the battle of Metemmeh when both were reporting on the progress of General Stewart's Desert Column.

PRIOR, Melton & Stock Code: MI24329