‘Town Batteries or Interior Fortifications of Sebastopol, 23 June 1855’ (w/c over pencil)

‘From Chapman's Attack - Town Batteries or Interior Fortifications of Sebastopol from the advanced parallel of Chapman’s Attack, 23 June 1855’. Watercolour over pencil by William Simpson (1823-1899), Crimean War, 1855. The soldiers in the foreground are shown manning a Rifle Pit in the British Left attack, also know as Chapman’s Attack. Below them to the right, the Vorontsov road runs down to Sevastopol’s Dockyard Creek; the water’s edge is protected by the Russian Strand Battery. On the high ground to the right, the Barrack Battery is well-placed to sweep any attack made from this direction. Reproduced as Plate 6 in Simpson’s ‘Seat of War in the East’, Second Series, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, London, 1856.