The Bombardment of Sebastopol by the combined fleets, 17th Oct 1854, 1855 (lithograph, tinted)

Creator: Commander Edward Wolfe Brooker (artist); E. Walker (engraver); P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd (publisher); Goupil & Co (publisher) At least twenty-three separate vessels, ranging from ships of the line to paddles steamers are shown in various positions, subjecting their target, which is shown largely obscured, behind and to left, to heavy fire. Numerous projectile trajectory arcs indicated by the artist intensify the picture’s dramatic charge. The ‘Firebrand’ (1842) is shown in stern view in the foreground, adjacent to the ‘Albion’ (1842), 90 guns, on the left side of the picture.