 Woodville spent most of his career working for the "Illustrated London News", where he quickly developed a reputation as a talented reporter and writer, but was also published in "Cornhill Magazine", "Strand Magazine", and "The Tatler".Richard Caton Woodville first experienced battle first-hand when he was sent by the "Illustrated London News" to report upon the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), and then again in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, where he made numerous sketches in December 1882, and also obtained photographs of the trenches at Tel-e-Kebir for his friend and co-artist Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, who had been commissioned to paint a scene of the battle.In 1879, Woodville's "Before Leuthen, 3 December 1757" was exhibited in the Royal Academy.