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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 1013

Sketch in the Interior of the Mamelon Vert, looking South.

Published by Colnaghi & Co., 13 & 14 Pall Mall, 17 September 1855. Lithograph by William Simpson (1823-99) at Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen.

Hand-coloured lithograph with colour washes. 470mm x 658mm including frame. The verso with a label for A. E. Dutton & Son Fine Art, 55 Frodsham St., Chester.

A party of French Zouaves are depicted amongst captured Russian guns and earthworks on the Mamelon redoubt during the siege of Sebastopol. A Russian shell bursts overhead.

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