The Horrors of War

Wood engraving

1854

Punch 27 (1854): 234

The captions continues: “How our Artist was scared when he went to a seaport Town to make a Sketch” — a cartoon less about the Crimean War than about the fact that “our Artist” considers himself a young man and possible candidate for the Navy.

Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham. Formatting and text by George P. Landow.

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