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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a battle scene, with a prisoner in oriental costume facing two mounted figures, with soldiers behind. On the left are fleeing figures and dead bodies.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/53
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a battle scene, with a prisoner in oriental costume facing two mounted figures, with soldiers behind. On the left are fleeing figures and dead bodies.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Settemo; and in a different hand Battle of Placy 1761
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening, partly oxidised, on brown washed paper
173 x 467
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Notes
This composition is the seventh 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 mounted figure on the right is probably Lord Clive with the Indian commander Mir Jaffier before him. The figures are stylised and there is little attempt at any form of characterisation. The Battle of Plassey took place in 1757.
The mounted figure on the right is probably Lord Clive with the Indian commander Mir Jaffier before him. The figures are stylised and there is little attempt at any form of characterisation. The Battle of Plassey took place in 1757.
Level
Drawing
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