'Earl Roberts on his Favourite White Arab "Vonolel"', c1898, (1901). Creator: Chancellor.


'Earl Roberts on his Favourite White Arab "Vonolel"', c1898, (1901). Portrait of British soldier Sir Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) on his horse Vonolel who was bought in 1877, aged four, and died in 1899. Roberts rode Vonolel at the Battle of Kandahar in Afghanistan in 1880. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]


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