World War I: wounded soldiers in Palestine being carried on cacolets on the backs of camels. Oil painting by G. Pirie, ca. 1917.

  • Pirie, George, 1863-1946.
Date:
[1917?]
Reference:
12242i
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Description

OED defines a cacolet as "A military litter for the sick or wounded carried by mules; either in the form of arm-chairs suspended one on each side of a mule, or of a bed laid along the beast's back. First employed by the French in the Crimean War, 1854-5". Both forms of the cacolet are shown here, the chair type on the left and the bed-type on the right

Publication/Creation

[1917?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil, on canvas ; canvas 76.3 x 102 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Camels and cacolets Palestine by George Pirie A.R.S.A. late R.A.M.C. Lettering on label attached to front of frame. Bears paper label: "1599"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 12242i

Creator/production credits

The painter George (from 1937 Sir George) Pirie was a Scottish animal-painter who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War

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