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Woolwich cadets exercising, c. 1835

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Year:
1835
Contributor:
Penley, Aaron Edwin, 1806-1870 (artist)
Genre:
watercolors (paintings)
Subject:
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich > 19th century
Local ID:
GB-O1835mf-2
Extent:
1 watercolor; 20.1 x 27.9 cm.

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Abstract:
Original watercolor signed bottom right 'A. Penley; perspective view of an imaginery town surrounded by a regular bastioned fortification with ravelins and moat, soldiers in foreground within gabion barricades and emplacements overlooking town.
Notes:
Penley taught Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur to paint and was also Professor of Drawing at Addiscombe College from 1851 to its dissolution, after which he held a similar post at Woolwich Academy till his death. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Edwin_Penley)
Title supplied by cataloger.
N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1951.

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No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Penley, Aaron Edwin, "Woolwich cadets exercising, c. 1835" (1835). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:228662/

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