Description: Condition A. Original colour lithograph from "Twelve Portraits" published
by William Heinemann, London 1899.

Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat, with framing labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat via Fedex.
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Field Marshal Frederick Roberts (1832-1914)
Lord Roberts was born in Cawnpore, India, in 1832. He came from a military family and was educated at Eton, Sandhurst and Addiscombe. His military career began in India where he won the Victoria Cross during the India Mutiny. He commanded troops in India, Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Burma, Ireland and South Africa.

Lord Roberts was very popular both with his troops and with the press. He was known for his self promotion, he even suggested stories about himself to the military correspondents who travelled with him.

He became the Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles on 17 August 1900 and held that appointment until his death in 1914.
(www.army.dnd.ca)

"Nicholson did this image just after his
association with James Pryde as The Beggarstaff Brothers had come to an end. But his revolutionary approach to design which marked the Beggarstaff posters, found further expression in the small-scale woodcuts on which he then concentrated.

William Nicholson's woodblock prints of the 1890's were amongst the most revolutionary British print images of the era. They used a treatment of form, with a stylized simplification of shape, and a handling of perspective and picture space which had had no precedent in British art. Influences of Japanese art, and a parallel thinking to, if not a direct knowledge of, the ideas of Toulouse Lautrec and of the Nabis painters in Paris at the same period can certainly be felt, although there is no record that Nicholson had actually studied either at this date." (Weston)