About this image...

Image Title: A Hot Day In The Batteries, 1855

Creator: Day & Son.,

Date: 1855 June 11th

Summary: Print shows action in a British artillery battery, mortar fire, mortars and cannon being loaded, the removal of wounded, and in the distance, the fortifications of Sevastopol?.

Notes: Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. London : Published by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., publishers to Her Majesty, 13 & 14 Pall Mall East ; Paris : Goupil & Cie., 1855, [plate 34].

Related Names: Simpson, William, 1823-1899

Subjects: Batteries (Weaponry)--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860
Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military facilities--British
Mortars--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860
Sevastopol? (Ukraine)--History--Siege, 1854-1855
Soldiers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860

Places: Sevastopol? Ukraine

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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