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Titre

The Death of General Wolfe. 

Structure du classement

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Pièce (reliée) fait partie de

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

Date(s)

ca. 1790

Lieu de création

Allemagne

éditeur

Klauber

étendue

1 print : engraving ; 42.8 x 59 cm (image).

Langue du document

Anglais

Portée et contenu

Uncoloured engraving by Theod. Falckeysen after the painting by Benjamin West. 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. This print was acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 10/8/21, written on the verso.

Conditions d'accès

Documents iconographiques (art)
90: Ouvert
Volume
48 No de pièce attribué par BAC 383
90: Ouvert
No de référence archivistique
R13133-397-5-E

Modalités d'utilisation

Copyright : expired Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-383

Nom(s) additionnel(s)

Artiste : West, Benjamin, 1738-1820,
Graveur : Falckeysen, Theodor (active 1768-died 1814)
Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
Wolfe, James, 1727-1759

Information additionnelle

Note sur l'état de conservation
Print is dirty, and freyed around the edges. There are numerous tears, especially at the bottom and on the left margin.

Documents reliés
For other copies of this print, see Acc. No.'s R9266-1344 and R13133-380. Print may have been acquired from the same source as R13133-382, which bears the same initial cataloguing date.

Signatures et inscriptions
Recto, l.l.: Painted by B. West, / Historical Painter to His MAJESTY Recto, l.r.: Engraved by Theod. Falckeysen Recto, l.c.: To the King's moost Excellent Majesty / This plate, THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE, is with / His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Servant. / Theod. Falckeysen. / From the original Picture in the Collection of Lord Grosvenor. / Is sold in Basil at Theod. Falckeisen in Augsburg at brother Klauber.

Attributions et conjectures
After the artist Benjamin West.

Vedette-matière

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

Source

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