 Flashman14  | 08 Apr 2016 8:51 a.m. PST |
link I've had the 2 volume Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars for many decades but this is the first time I've seen these images from what looks to be a new-to-me volume. Or are these just uncollected prints? |
| ironicon | 08 Apr 2016 9:09 a.m. PST |
They sort of resemble the old two book set. One figure I remember from the old books. The backgrounds are different though. |
 deadhead | 08 Apr 2016 9:13 a.m. PST |
Brilliant find. Their style instantly recognisable, but improved quality images, compared with the famous 2 volumes |
| Marc the plastics fan | 08 Apr 2016 9:54 a.m. PST |
Oooh. Very nice and looks new. Any further details please? |
| Esquire | 08 Apr 2016 10:53 a.m. PST |
Clearly Funcken and clearly not in the original two volumes. New to me. |
| deadhead | 08 Apr 2016 11:43 a.m. PST |
Yeah…that is what intrigues me. How did I miss this? |
| Lilian | 08 Apr 2016 12:13 p.m. PST |
these paintings come from their plates in the french-speaking magazine "Uniformes", if the quality seems better it is because they were done much later than their books, 20 years, in 1988, 28 years ago |
| deadhead | 08 Apr 2016 1:06 p.m. PST |
You can tell that their skill had increased. How fascinating and what an advert for this forum, that someone could identify these. Are these pictures available anywhere today? |
| Lilian | 08 Apr 2016 1:59 p.m. PST |
it was for their article "la gloire en haillons" (the glory in rags) something about true appearance of the soldiers [Uniformes n° 111 february 1988] and also reprinted in the last special issue 135 done from previous Funcken's paintings in this magazine,
Fred died in 2013 and Liliane late 2015 |
| Duc de Brouilly | 08 Apr 2016 3:21 p.m. PST |
Lilian I don't know if you could help me with this but the Funckens did an illustrated article on the the British Army in Egypt in 1801. I understood that it was published in Uniformes magazine but I've never been able to find out in which issue. (I have a set of Uniformes Albums which go up to issue 116 but it's not in any of these). Some of the illustrations were re-published in Gloire et Empire but I have never been able to find the original Uniformes article though I have been searching for it for years! |
| Flashman14 | 08 Apr 2016 4:18 p.m. PST |
Thanks Lilian – very helpful!! |
| Lilian | 09 Apr 2016 12:33 p.m. PST |
now dear Duke of Brouilly after an intense brainstorming I realized why yours Funcken's reprinted plates in Gloire&Empire about Egyptian Campaign were not in my and yours "Uniformes" who ceased to publish the magazine with the n°135, and after with a new owner it became more a militaria World Wars magazine than anything else, it is because after the n°135 it was merged during 2 years with its sister-review the Gazette des Armes, so actually the 2-parts article(s) were into the "Gazette des Armes & Uniformes" n°215 & 216 (1991)
both are freely viewables here
pages 36 to 43
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pages 32 to 39
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| Duc de Brouilly | 10 Apr 2016 2:37 a.m. PST |
My dear Lilian, many thanks for solving that mystery for me; it really is much appreciated. Thank you also for the info on Uniformes, I'd always wondered why that once excellent magazine suddenly became almost exclusively about 20th Century subjects. And the links could not have been more timely with the recent release of the superb Perry Miniatures early-Napoleonic British. The Egyptian Campaign beckons! |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
