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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a war-like scene of soldiers and female captives, with to the right a cannon and a drum in the foreground. In the background are ships.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/47
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a war-like scene of soldiers and female captives, with to the right a cannon and a drum in the foreground. In the background are ships.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand primo; and in pencil in a different hand Surrender of Senegal 1758
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening, partly oxidised, on brown washed paper
167 x 459
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Notes
This composition is the first in a series of reliefs of contemporary and historic battles (Adam vol.7/47-59), all intended to be part of a programme of iconographical decoration for James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63. The drawings are probably all by Antonio Zucchi (1726-95), with his characteristic use of brown paper. The pencil identification and dating of each historical scene is probably in an early nineteenth-century hand.
In this drawing, the figures are shown in contemporary costume.
In this drawing, the figures are shown in contemporary costume.
Level
Drawing
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