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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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French Prisoners at Canterbury, the Norman Staircase, c. 1808-1813
Thomas Rowlandson
British, 1756
- 1827
pen and grey and reddish-brown ink with watercolour over traces of graphite on wove paper
15 x 23.4 cm
Purchased 1960
National Gallery of Canada (no. 7777)
The Norman Staircase was built in the mid-12th century as the entrance to one of the monastic buildings around Canterbury Cathedral. As Rowlandson's drawing records, these structures were used as a temporary prison at the time that the French Wars raged throughout Europe following the Revolution of 1789. The Staircase serves as the backdrop to a scene of mundane daily life for these incarcerated French soldiers.
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Entrance from Hackney or Cambridge Heath Turnpike with a Distant View of St. Paul's
The River
Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight
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