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British politicians including W.E. Gladstone, Rosebery, Chamberlain and Earl Spencer, in the role of British soldiers in Crimea in the painting 'The roll call' by Elizabeth Thompson (Butler). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 13 February 1886.

Surgeon Brydon, the sole survivor of 16,000 British troops, arriving exhausted at Jalalabad in 1842. Photogravure, 1908, after a painting by Lady Butler, 1879.

Crimean War: a soldier collapses during a roll-call in snowy weather. Mezzotint by W.T. Hulland, 1882, after E. Thompson, 1874.

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Butler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson), 1846-1933

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Crimean War: a soldier collapses during a roll-call in snowy weather. Mezzotint by W.T. Hulland, 1882, after E. Thompson, 1874.

British politicians including W.E. Gladstone, Rosebery, Chamberlain and Earl Spencer, in the role of British soldiers in Crimea in the painting 'The roll call' by Elizabeth Thompson (Butler). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 13 February 1886.

Surgeon Brydon, the sole survivor of 16,000 British troops, arriving exhausted at Jalalabad in 1842. Photogravure, 1908, after a painting by Lady Butler, 1879.