Robert Taylor Pritchett was a gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. As artist he painted royal ceremonies for Queen Victoria, and he illustrated Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle.
R. T. Pritchett
"Baptism of Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg at the drawing room of Balmoral Castle" (1887)
"Homeward Bound", from The Voyage of the Beagle (1890)
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket was a.577 calibre MiniƩ-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridg
An engraving titled Sepoy Indian troops dividing the spoils after their mutiny against British rule, which include a number of muskets
Confederate dead after the Second Battle of Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863. A number of Enfield 1853 rifled muskets are visible.