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Two studies of naval guns being fired
Two sketches of breech-loading guns being fired on board large warships about 1890. The upper sketch shows a traversing gun on a fixed, wheeled mounting firing through an embrasure or casemate. The lower sketch is of a gun on a fixed slide mounting with limited traverse and fired by lanyard. [
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Object Details
| ID: | PAE0050 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Date made: | circa 1890 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | 355 mm x 255 mm |