'near Yeni Bazaar - 10 miles from Schumla', 1854 (c)

Watercolour by 2nd Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).

Hilly landscape with the figure of a man in blue robes stands with two horses in the foreground, with mountains on the horizon.

Shumla, now Shumen in Bulgaria, was a strategically important fortified town in the Balkans used as a headquarters by Ottoman Turkish forces during the Crimean War (1854-1856).

From an album of watercolour paintings and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, relating to the Crimean War (1854-1856), 1854 (c).

Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.