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"Saving the Guns"

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"Saving the Guns"
An ink and wash drawing, 14in. by 9in. (35.5cm. by 25cm.), showing a scene of carnage and confusion as Officers and soldiers attempt to limber up the guns amid bursting shells and lethal small-arms fire from the invisible enemy, signed H.C. Seppings Wright, mounted and framed
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Lot Essay

Henry Charles Seppings-Wright (1849-1937), was an artist and war correspondent for the Illustrated London News. He went on the Dunottar Castle with General Buller towards South Africa but was ordered off the ship at Madeira and returned to England.