Declaration of peace : Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

MPG/South African War, 1899-1902

fonds

probably 1902

Graphic Materials, Prints

9676481

1 lithograph - 50 x 31.5 cm, in mount 55.5 x 40.7 cm - red and blue ink, silk laid down on board

Lithograph on silk with heading "Declaration of Peace" below which are depicted three drawings, the centre one of two soldiers shaking hands, the left a portrait of His Majesty King Edward VII, the right of Her Majesty Queen Alexandria. Below this the words in red: Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902.

A text block in the centre of the declaration states: On Sunday Morning, June 1st, 1902, His Excellency The Honourable Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Colony of the Capr of Good Hope, received the following message by cable from the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies: "1st June, 1902.- The representatives of the Boer forces still in the field have accepted terms of surrender offered by His Majesty's Government."

Underneath this two drawings of The Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Milner.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue when record not located in catalogue, December 2023

Placed in new window mount, November 1992. Preservation req. 2613.