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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Attack on Captain Chamney's House
1845?
8 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (225 x 187 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, on cream paper, laid down on white paper.
2006.38:17
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
Notes
Forms part of a collection of 20 watercolor drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate W.H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion.
Drawing for an etched illustration for History of the Irish rebellion (London : Baily Brothers, 1845).
Drawing for an etched illustration for History of the Irish rebellion (London : Baily Brothers, 1845).
Inscriptions/Markings
Each drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below the image in pen and brown ink, marginal sketches in graphite at lower left and right; in pencil on mount at lower right: p. 293.
Summary
Drawing shows Irish rebels firing on the house of Captain Chamney from behind a fence, as two carry a wounded comrade out of danger, and another, protected by a mattress carried across his back, attempts to set fire to the door of the house, and loyalists defend themselves from the upper windows; with a graphite sketch in lower margin at left of a group of rebels firing from behind a cart, an element ultimately incorporated into the finished printed design, and a small sketch of the figure with the mattress on his back in the margin at right.
Associated names
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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