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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a naval battle with a sinking ship near a shore, with figures on masts and a lifeboat, and drowning figures in the sea. In the background are numerous ships.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/51
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a naval battle with a sinking ship near a shore, with figures on masts and a lifeboat, and drowning figures in the sea. In the background are numerous ships.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Quinto; and in a different Hawk's Engadgement. Novr. 1759
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening, partly oxidised, on brown washed paper
168 x 462
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Notes
This composition is the fifth 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.
This scene shows the naval battle where Admiral Hawk defeated the French at Quiberon Bay in 1759.
This scene shows the naval battle where Admiral Hawk defeated the French at Quiberon Bay in 1759.
Level
Drawing
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