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- Title:
The Death of the Great Wolf
- Additional Title(s):
The Death of the Great Wolf: To Benjamin West, Esqr, President of the Royal Academy, this attempt to Emulate the Beauties of his unequal'd Picture, of the "Death of General Wolfe" is most respectfully submitted, by the Author.
- Date:
- 1795
- Medium:
- Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 7/16 inches (34 × 44.3 cm), Image: 11 1/4 × 17 1/16 inches (28.6 × 43.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: Js Gy de et fc", below image at center, "THE DEATH of the GREAT WOLF. | ___ 'We have overcome all Opposition! __ exclaimed the Messengers, ___ 'I'm Satisfied.' ___ said the Dying Hero, & Expired in the Moment of Victory. | To Benj, West Esqr. President of the Royal Academy, this attempt to Emulate the Beauties of his unequal'd Picture, of the 'Death of Gen.l Wolfe,' is most respectfully submutted, by the Author."; lower right: "Pubd Decr 17, 1795 by H.Humphrey 37 New Bond Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.906
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armies | axes | blood | boats | caricature | death | drinking glass | dying | eyeglasses | fighting | flags | flotilla | food | French | hats | historical | historical subject | History | messengers | natives | navy | ocean | parody | political | satire | scepters | sea | swords | troops | victory | war | wine | wolf
- Associated People:
- Pitt, John, Esq., second earl of Chatham (1756–1835), army officer
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), politician
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Burke, Edmund (1729/30–1797), politician and author
Arden, Richard Pepper, 1st Baron of Alvanley (1745–1804), Master of the Rolls
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister
Rose, Right Hon George (1744–1818), MP, statesman, writer, treasury secretary
Lennox, Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735–1806), politician, soldier, art patron - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43723
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