Secondhand Sight
Title: Secondhand Sight
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade, Dr Watson
Summary: A vignette
Warnings: (what, no dialogue?)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 24th prompt: (The Self Portrait of Horace Vernet, Holmes' great-uncle)
The 1885 London Vernet showing featured several of the artist’s finest works including many depictions of the French military.
Watson stood transfixed before one of the smaller paintings of a battle scene featuring a fusilier and a drummer boy tending to a wounded dog.
Inspector Lestrade, who had accompanied Mr Holmes and Dr Watson, made some inane comment about how dangerous painting during a pitched battle would be.
Holmes glanced at Watson, who had not moved, and assured Lestrade that although the painter’s work was done in studio, one need not see war first-hand in order to understand its horrors.
.oOOo.
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Recommended Reading/Viewing:
Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily; Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London 1880.
Vernet, Émile-Jean-Horace; Le Chien du regiment blesse; 1819.
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade, Dr Watson
Summary: A vignette
Warnings: (what, no dialogue?)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 24th prompt: (The Self Portrait of Horace Vernet, Holmes' great-uncle)
The 1885 London Vernet showing featured several of the artist’s finest works including many depictions of the French military.
Watson stood transfixed before one of the smaller paintings of a battle scene featuring a fusilier and a drummer boy tending to a wounded dog.
Inspector Lestrade, who had accompanied Mr Holmes and Dr Watson, made some inane comment about how dangerous painting during a pitched battle would be.
Holmes glanced at Watson, who had not moved, and assured Lestrade that although the painter’s work was done in studio, one need not see war first-hand in order to understand its horrors.
.oOOo.
Please sign the guestbook
Recommended Reading/Viewing:
Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily; Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London 1880.
Vernet, Émile-Jean-Horace; Le Chien du regiment blesse; 1819.