Thursday, 30 July 2009

Death of General Wolfe

Just for a bit of balance I thought it might be interesting to look at some different depictions of this famous scene. This one I have never seen before - by James Barry 1776 - story here - it suffered apparently by being unfavourably compared to the Benjamin West version and was withdrawn.

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Iroquois warrior

  Artist unknown, Homme Iroquois, late 18th century, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.