They crept up to sentries and cut them down with their kukries
Date1891
Artist
Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
(American illustrator, 1849–1925)
Illustration Citation"Peppered by Afghans," by Archibald Forbes, in Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1892
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in. (29.5 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-136
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextNew York native Rugus Zogbaum became known as a specialist in the illustration of military subjects. The author Archibald Forbes was a British war correspondent. He covered events described as the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878–1880, when England invaded and occupied part of Afghanistan, provoking an unsuccessful resistance by Afghan forces. Forbes' narrative and Zogbaum's illustration reflected the British view of Afghans as bloodthirsty and uncivilized.
