Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specialises in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.

While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum calibre, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.

Battle of Vimy Ridge

An extract of our prints currently available:

Gartlan E.P. Charge of the Canadians at Battle of Courcelette.



	THE BATTLE OF VIMY RIDGE after the painting by Richard Jack ARA. Offset lithograph. Copyright by the Canadian War memorials fund copyright entered in the Library of Congress Washington DC USA. Printed in England. Canadian War memorial picture number five published for the Canadian War records office by the Medici, modern Art Society, England Limited trade agent, Canada excluded. Glazed, black wood frame. Size 15 ¼ x 20 ½ plate mark) Frame 26 x 30” Ref. GC 14(210)/EN//a.anae>DSN PRICE CODE B. SOLD Richard Jack was the first Canadian official war artist, appointed in 1916. In this painting, he depicts the crew of an 18-pounder field gun firing at German positions on Vimy Ridge. To the left, wounded soldiers move past the gun towards the rear. After two years in the trenches, the Canadians had become an experienced and skilled fighting force. Although they had done well in previous battles, on Easter Monday 1917, they proved their worth by taking Vimy Ridge, an important strategic point in northern France, after other armies had failed to do so. Located just north of the town of Arras, the dominating heights of the seven-kilometre-long ridge shot up from the otherwise flat or rolling Douai Plain. The Germans had captured the site in October 1914 and since then had transformed it into a heavily fortified defensive position. At the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 3,598 Canadians lost their lives and 7,004 were wounded.