A Soldier-Artist in Zululand: William Whitelocke Lloyd and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

Fugitive’s Drift Lodge: Rattray Publications, 2007

4to, 259pp. Original hardcover binding with dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine. With nearly 200 plates and photographs throughout book. With slip noting the author’s death and facsimile folded map of ‘Zululand Sheet 2’ in pocket at rear of book.

Lloyd went to war with a sketchbook and box of watercolours stashed in his kit-bag. Although some of the sketches in the album pre-date the war, it is evident that the historic circumstances in which he found himself spurred his desire to record what he saw, and the album preserves details of every stage of the campaign from Lloyd's perspective. In 2000 these watercolours were discovered by the historian David Rattray, who was immediately struck by their accuracy and set about researching Lloyd's pictorial legacy: "From the moment I laid eyes on the copies of Lloyd's paintings, I realised that his artwork was accurate to an extraordinary degree. The more famous landmarks were, of course, instantly recognizable, but I was fairly confident that we would find the locations of all his paintings. Our plan was to try and identify each and every scene Lloyd painted, to photograph accurately what he depicted." (sothebys.com)

Condition: Very good. Minor rubbing to the dust jacket. Internally clean and bright, and solidly bound.