A Dirge of Sebastopol (BM 1927,1126.1.19.82)
Summary
Title-page for songsheet, 'A Dirge of Sebastopol', lamenting the suffering of the British soldiers in the Crimean War, and Battle of Sevastopol, and praising their bravery; a soldiers stands to the side of a procession of soldiers embarking ships; he holds up his baby daughter, while his wife and two older children stand by, the wife crying into a handerkchief; men waving their hats to the left, the masts of ships in background.
Colour lithograph, with additional hand-colouring
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Date
1854
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain