page_title: John Luard
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Luard / Works
caption_attribution_description: Filling water-skins; traveling; herding cattle; three lithographs by John Luard, c.1840's Source: ebay, June 2004
context_page_description: John Luard was a British Army officer and author of History of the Dress of the British Soldier
context_section_description: Like others of his family, Luard was an artist. He published Views in India, St. Helena, and Car Nicobar (London, 1835), drawn from nature and on stone by himself, and History of the Dress of the British Soldier, published by subscription in 1852.
  Some of Luard's sketches were used to illustrate Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque (1850) by Fanny Parkes (Fanny Parlby), who had commissioned him as a watercolour artist. In 1851 at the Asiatic Gallery, Baker Street Bazaar, Portman Square, London, the "Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan" comprised 60 drawings arranged by Luard. The artists creating the diorama included Louis Haghe, who did the "figures and animals", and William Adolphus Knell the "shipping"; the panoramic setting was by Philip Phillips. Luard based the material on his own sketches, and on those of Parkes, and eight others were credited.
  His sketches formed the basis of the design the Ghuznee Medal, awarded for storming the fortress of Ghuznee during the First Anglo-Afghan War, although he did not serve in the war himself.
caption: Near Monghyr (i.e. Munger), 1840s lithograph by John Luard
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