3-074-848 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

In The Nick of Time by R. C. Woodville: Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, 1883. 'A few of the sketches, furnished by the artists themselves, which are given in the Illustrated Catalogue of this Exhibition, appeared in our paper last week. Those now presented to our readers include a portion of Mr. Woodville's "In the Nick of time"...R. Caton Woodville has almost surpassed himself in his extraordinarily vigorous spirited picture of English Dragoons cutting down Egyptian soldiers whom they have surprised in an attempt to blow up a bridge and cut telegraph wires'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.