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Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British, The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch, before 1822
- Title:
The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch
- Additional Title(s):
Sketch for David Wilkie's Painting "Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo"
- Date:
- before 1822
- Medium:
- Brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted in moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 10 1/2 x 12 5/16 inches (26.6 x 31.2 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 6 5/8 x 8 15/16 inches (16.9 x 22.7 cm), Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 5/8 inches (11.1 × 16.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center: "The Chelsea Pensioners"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "58"
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "Sir D. Wilkie R A."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4225
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buildings | Chelsea pensioners | crowd | figures | flags | genre subject | horse (animal) | men | retirement community | street | study (visual work) | tables | women
- Associated Places:
- Chelsea | England | Europe | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14040
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