A Witness to the Front Lines Robert Thomas Landells lived a life defined by the movement of armies and the shifting borders of nineteenth-century Europe. Born in London in 1833, he was the son of Ebenezer Landells, a man who had helped shape the early years of Punch magazine. While his father worked within the engraver's workshop, Robert found his calling as an illustrator and journalist, often placing himself directly where history was being written. He did not merely report on conflict; he drew it. His career was marked by a series of deployments that tracked the major European struggles of…