Dood van James Wolfe tijdens de Slag om Quebec, William Woollett, after Benjamin West, 1776

Title(s)

Dood van James Wolfe tijdens de Slag om Quebec
The Death of General Wolfe (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-19.319

Catalogue reference

• Aantal staten bekend-8(10)
  Remark: Fagan, 1885.

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 12

Artist

• print maker: William Woollett (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Benjamin West (mentioned on object)
• publisher: William Woollett (mentioned on object)
• publisher: William Wynne Ryland (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Boydell (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

Jan-1776

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 475 mm × width 609 mm

What

• violent death by firearms
• battle (+ land forces)
• indigenous peoples of North America

When

• 1759-09-13 - 1759-09-13

Where

• Québec

Who

• James Wolfe
• Hervey Smythe
• Robert Monckton
• Isaac Barré
• Adam Williamson
• Robert Adair
• Hugh Debbieg

Acquisition

purchase 1828

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Zes portretten van aanwezigen bij de dood van James Wolfe

• A catalogue raisonné of the engraved works of William Woollett, Louis Alexander Fagan, p. 40-41, cat.nr. 93-VIII
• Selling prints to the Rijksmuseum in 1827 : Christiaan Josi and Cornelis Apostool, Erik Hinterding, Olenka Horbatsch