A Risky Moment with Captain Manners C. Wood, 10th Hussars, at the action near Futteeabad, 2nd April 1879

Wash and watercolor drawing signed by Simpson; soldier about to be attacked, saved by colleague (Lieut. Ralph Fisher-Childe), battle in background From an album compiled by Simpson entitled 'Original sketches made in Afghanistan during the campaign of 1878-79 with the Peshawer Field Force'. Reproduced in the Illustrated london News, May 17, 1879. Wash and watercolor drawing signed by Simpson; soldier about to be attacked, saved by colleague (Lieut. Ralph Fisher-Childe), battle in background From an album compiled by Simpson entitled 'Original sketches made in Afghanistan during the campaign of 1878-79 with the Peshawer Field Force'. Reproduced in the Illustrated london News, May 17, 1879. Large upright folio. London, Walter Spencer, 1953 Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)