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Photo, Print, Drawing Colonel John Whitehead Peard: Commonly Known as Garibaldi's Englishman.

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Title

  • Colonel John Whitehead Peard: Commonly Known as Garibaldi's Englishman.

Summary

  • This original watercolor, signed and dated August 22, 1860, by Thomas Nast (1840-1902), originally was thought to be of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, but later was identified as showing Colonel John Whitehead Peard. Known as "Garibaldi's Englishman," Peard was an Oxford-educated lawyer and the son of a British admiral. He joined Garibaldi in 1860, ostensibly because of the brutality of the officials he witnessed during a visit to Naples. Peard fought in the wars of Italian unification and was awarded the Cross of the Order of Valour by King Victor Emmanuel II. Following Garibaldi's retirement, Peard returned to Cornwall and lived the quiet life of a Victorian gentleman. The watercolor is accompanied by two photostats from the New York Illustrated News showing the painting as it appeared in the paper on October 27, 1860. The work is from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library, the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and one of the world's largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.

Names

  • Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Messina : [publisher not identified], 1860.

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  1861 to 1880
  • -  Peard, John Whitehead, 1811-1880
  • -  Soldiers
  • -  Uniforms

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 watercolor; 33.7 x 24.9 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Brown University Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669868

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Nast, Thomas, Artist. Colonel John Whitehead Peard: Commonly Known as Garibaldi's Englishman. Italy, 1860. [Messina: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669868/.

APA citation style:

Nast, T. (1860) Colonel John Whitehead Peard: Commonly Known as Garibaldi's Englishman. Italy, 1860. [Messina: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669868/.

MLA citation style:

Nast, Thomas, Artist. Colonel John Whitehead Peard: Commonly Known as Garibaldi's Englishman. [Messina: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669868/>.