Death of a General

Benjamin West

Artist, American, 1738 - 1820

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.43 × 17.78 cm (4 1/2 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 14.4 × 20.2 cm (5 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.195

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Durlacher Brothers, London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1960-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, March 5-25, 1961

Bibliography

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, 1961, 20

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, checklist 242

Inscriptions

lower center in black ink: (not deciphered); by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 10 (underlined)

Watermarks

Shield with fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q64537250

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