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The Death of General Wolfe

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Date:

[ca. 1790]

Reference:

R13133-397-5-E, Volume number: 48

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3991585

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

The Death of General Wolfe
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Date(s):

[ca. 1790]

Place:

Augsburg:

Place of creation:

Germany

Publisher:

Klauber,

Extent:

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

Language of material:

English

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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.
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Artist: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820

Engraver: Falckeysen, Theodor (active 1768-died 1814)

Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
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Attributions and conjectures:

After the artist Benjamin West.

Note on the state of conservation:

Print is dirty, and freyed around the edges. There are numerous tears, especially at the bottom and on the left margin.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

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.

Related material:

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.

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event

Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

48 Item no. assigned by LAC 383

[Consultation 90 Open]

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

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