[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.]

KITCHENER (Herbert Horatio, Earl).

[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.]

BOLDLY SIGNED

Signed (“Kitchener of Khartoum”), a striking image of the victorious general in uniform and medals. c.145 by 100mm, signed on a light portion at the foot, laid down on the original mount, measuring in all c. 185 by 140mm. Dated on the verso, 7 December, 1898.

£850.00

KITCHENER (Herbert Horatio, Earl).

[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.]

Kitchener stares unblinkingly at the camera in familiar heroic pose. This photo- graph is dated only three months after Kitchener’s great victory at Omdurman of 2 September 1898, when his Anglo-Egyptian army avenged Gordon by crushing the forces of the Khalifa Abdulla, the Mahdi’s successor, and recon- quering the Sudan. Two days after the battle, on 4 September, he was able to fulfil his goal of raising the British flag over the ruins of Gordon’s palace in Khartoum. Shortly afterwards he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, so this must be one of the first photographs he signed using his title. He remained in the Sudan for a year as Governor General, and then was posted to South Africa on the outbreak of the Boer War as chief-of-staff to Lord Roberts.

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[Fine head-and-shoulders cabinet photograph.]

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