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WD3547

Record Id:

032-003268152

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003268152

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0011f9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

WD3547

Title:

Gwalior fort from the north-east, August 1780, with the union flag flying above the battlements. Artist(s): Hicks, John (d. 1781)

Scope & Content:

Gwalior fort from the north-east, August 1780, with the union flag flying above the battlements.

Wash; 31.3 by 57.4 cm.

Purchased 1976.

Note: See also WD750, Mackenzie collection, and a line engraving based on the drawings, P788, inscribed: ‘To Major William Popham, and the rest of the Officers and Soldiers, on the 4th August, 1780, surprised and took possession of the celebrated and hitherto deemed impregnable Fortress of Gwalior; this view of that remarkable Place (engraved by the Order and at the expense of the honble Warren Hastings, Esq. to perpetuate the memory of so important an Event) is with the highest Admiration of their Military Virtue. Inscribed by J. Rennell. The Original Sketch’d on the spot by Capt J. Hicks, the Drawing made by Mr Hearne. Engraved by Wm. Byrne, the figures by J. Hall. Published according to Act of Parliament by James Rennell 5th April 1784’. The present drawing appears to be a worked up version of WD750.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003268152

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003268152

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 Item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Styles:

British school
European school

Start Date:

1780

End Date:

1780

Date Range:

1780

Era:

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