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Lithograph of 'The Thin Red Line', by Robert Gibb

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Postcard of Lithograph of 'The Thin Red Line', by Robert Gibb.
000-000-100-265-C
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Lithograph of 'The Thin Red Line', by Robert Gibb

Coloured lithograph showing the 93rd (Highland) Regiment, entitled 'The Thin Red Line' by Robert Gibb, 1881. Printed by the magazine, 'Black and White'.

Following their conduct at the Battle of Balaklava in 1854, during the Crimean War, the 93rd (Highland) Regiment were described by William Howard Russell from The Times as 'a thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'. This was subsequently and persistently misquoted as 'the thin red line'.


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Online ID: 000-000-100-265-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0207: The Thistle at War
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1950.939
Date: 1854
1881
Material: Paper
Dimensions:
What: Print / lithograph
Subject: Prints
Who: Robert Gibb (delineator)
Where:
Event: Battle of Balaklava
Description: Coloured lithograph entitled 'The Thin Red Line", by Robert Gibb, 1881, and published in 'Black and White' magazine.
References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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