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Lot 128 'It was impossible not to love him, I did...he was a very good man' - Florence Nightingale to her parents.
William Simpson (1823-1899)
The funeral procession of Lord Raglan, 1855
Closed23 May 2014
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GBP 15,000
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Included in Simpson's, Seat of War in the East, second series, 1856 (see lot 107).
On hearing of Lord Raglan's death, Marshal Pélissier went into the farmhouse where Raglan had died and stood by the iron camp-bed and the green serge curtains 'crying like a child'. For the funeral procession he placed a wreath of immortelles (everlasting flowers) on the coffin, which was placed on a gun carriage, behind which walked Miss Mary, his favourite horse (see lot 129).
On hearing of Lord Raglan's death, Marshal Pélissier went into the farmhouse where Raglan had died and stood by the iron camp-bed and the green serge curtains 'crying like a child'. For the funeral procession he placed a wreath of immortelles (everlasting flowers) on the coffin, which was placed on a gun carriage, behind which walked Miss Mary, his favourite horse (see lot 129).