About the Artwork
The Triumph of Nelson after the Battle of the Nile
1798
Benjamin West
1738-1820
American
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on paper
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 1/8 inches (19.1 × 28.3 cm) Mount: 14 1/4 × 18 1/8 inches (36.2 × 46 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
48.205
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Markings
Signed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: Benj. West
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: Made this Sketch on the 5th of Oct. 1798 | when at the Castle Inn Windsor Inscribed, in blue pencil, on mount, upper center, verso: WCA 1065 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower center, verso: Produce of England
Stamped, in black ink, on mount, lower left: Sir Robert Witt (Lugt suppl. 2228b)
Provenance
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Newberry, John S. "Four Drawings by Copley," Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1949): pp. 32-35.
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Benjamin West, The Triumph of Nelson after the Battle of the Nile, 1798, pen and brown ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 48.205.
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