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Title

The Death of General Wolfe. 

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Item (linked) part of

Canadian Historical Prints Collection [graphic material] (R13133-0-7-E)

Date(s)

1776

Place of creation

United Kingdom

Publisher

Woollett, Boydell & Ryland

Extent

1 print : engraving, hand-coloured, mounted on board ; 42.8 x 59.3 cm (image).

Language of material

English

Scope and content

This image depicts distraught Grenadiers standing and kneeling by the side of a fallen General Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham, Quebec. The on-going combat can be seen in the background.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)
90: Open
Volume
48 Item no. assigned by LAC 384
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R13133-398-7-E

Terms of use

Copyright : expired Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-384

Additional name(s)

Engraver: Ryland, William Wynne, 1732-1783.
Engraver: Woollett, William, 1735-1785.
Artist: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820,
Publisher: Boydell, John, 1719-1804.
Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
Wolfe, James, 1727-1759

Additional information

Returned from Rideau Hall 1976.

Related materials
There are numerous copies of this print in the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana and the Coverdale Collection.

Signatures and inscriptions
Inscribed. Dated. Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: Painted by B. West, /Historical Painter to His MAJESTY.; l.r.: Engraved by Wm Woolett, / Engraver to His MAJESTY.; b.: To the King's moft excellent Majesty / This plate, THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE, is with / His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Subject & Servant, William Woolett. / From the original Picture in the Collection of Lord Grosvenor.; l.l.: Publifhed as the Act directs, January 1ft. 1776; l.r.: by Mefsrs. Woolett, Boydell & Ryland, LONDON.

Attributions and conjectures
After the artist Benjamin West.

Subject heading

1. event.
2. Death and burial.
3. Wolfe, James,
4. Mort et sépulture.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3991804