2-704-344 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Captain Cameron and the other Abyssinian Captives', c1864. Captain Charles Cameron, British Consul in Ethiopia, (far right), and others were taken prisoner by the Abyssinian emperor Tewodros II on 3 January 1864. Cameron, his European staff, and four missionaries were kept in chains for over two years. Shown here are: Kerans, Rassam, Stern, Prideaux, Mr & Mrs Rosenthal and Child, Blanc, Pietro and Cameron. Their capture led to the British Expedition to Abyssinia. Engraving after a photograph. Published in "Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century. By Archibald Forbes, Major Arthur Griffiths, and others." [Cassell & Co, London, 1895-1897]