Secondhand Sight

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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.

Comments

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Yes, I think this is a major crux for Watson. Not only that other people might think him a coward, but that he is uncertain what the problem is, and he is probably very scared. Not something you can talk about in those days. So, if Holmes is a very observant man, the one thing that he is sure of is that Watson is not a coward.