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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a military figure seated on a chair beneath a canopy on the fight-hand side. At his feet are urns and jewels presented by kneeling figures; in the background are soldiers.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/52
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a military figure seated on a chair beneath a canopy on the fight-hand side. At his feet are urns and jewels presented by kneeling figures; in the background are soldiers.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Sesto; and in a diffeerent hand Surrender of Montreal & all Canada July 1760 and Surr
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening, partly oxidised, on brown washed paper
166 x 459
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Notes
This composition is the sixth 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.
The figure seated on the right in this drawing is presumably the commander in Canada, Lord Amherst.
The figure seated on the right in this drawing is presumably the commander in Canada, Lord Amherst.
Level
Drawing
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