The fight for the beacon. (BM 1854,1211.138 1).jpg
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The fight for the beacon. (BM 1854,1211.138 1), Warriors fighting on the stone base of a beacon, men climbing up the post from which a burning basket is hanging, the highest holding a torch to it; in the foreground, a man, stripped to the waist and seen from behind, raises a flail with one right hand and seizes a spear with the other, which a prone opponent also grasps, another man about to strike the first with an axe; more men trying to climb up from a lower level at right, a ladder being removed; cliffs, sea and ships in the distance to right; after the cartoon by Townsend submitted to the Westminster Hall exhibition of 1843.  1847
Lithograph with ochre tint-stone on chine collé
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The fight for the beacon. (BM 1854,1211.138 1), Uploads by copyfraud, Coloured lithographs in the British Museum, paper, Print made by: William Linnell : After: Henry James Townsend : Printed by: Charles Joseph Hullmandel : Published by: Longman, The fight for the beacon.
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ビーコンの争い。(BM18541211.138 1) ビーコンの石のベースで戦う戦士、男性は燃える籠が吊るされている柱の上に登り、その柱にはたいまつを掲げている。前景では、腰に下げて後ろから見ている男性が片手でフイルを上げ、もう一方の手に槍をつかみやすい相手、斧で最初の攻撃をしようとしている別の男性、右側の下段から登ろうとしている男性、梯子を取り外している。崖、海、船
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ビーコンの争い。。
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sea ladder cliff-hanging