Winter In Crimea (Original)

Artist: F R Exell
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 8" x 8" (195mm x 215mm)
Date: 1973
Code: ExellCavalryLL

This is the unique original Gouache painting by F R Exell.

Winter in Crimea brought on terrible conditions for transport through a sea of mud. From an article about how the British Army had to change during the Crimean War as it had not changed since the glory days of Wellington at Waterloo.

Published in Look and Learn issue 618, 17th November 1973.

• Artist Biography
  F R Exell
  Not much is known about this accomplished book illustrator who appeared most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Exell illustrated the paperback editions of 'Moonfleet' by J Mead Falkner (1963 edition) and 'The Quarantine Child' by Geraldine Symons (published 1966) and illustrated the 'History's Heroes' feature for Look and Learn magazine in the 1970s.