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Bombardment

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  • Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • A sheet of sketches showing war defences and victims during the Chinese Campaign, 1860, China. Tinted lithograph after Lt. Col. Crealock, 1860.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.
  • Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • World War One: two stretcher bearers removing a wounded man under fire. Wash painting, c. 1916.
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    Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

    | Date: 14 April 1855 | Reference: 24466i
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    World War One: the entrance to a shelter in war ravaged country with a man outside washing his hands. Colour chalk drawing with pencil, c. 1914.

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24591i
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    World War Two: converted first aid station in the Raffles theatre, Singapore, 1942, during aerial bombardment. Wash drawing by L. Rawlings, 1943.

    Rawlings, Leo, -1990. | Date: 1943 | Reference: 24390i
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    A sheet of sketches showing war defences and victims during the Chinese Campaign, 1860, China. Tinted lithograph after Lt. Col. Crealock, 1860.

    Crealock, John North, 1837-1895. | Reference: 20710i
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    Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.

    Sheldon, Charles M., active 1905. | Date: 1905 | Reference: 23896i
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