The Battle of La Hogue
Catalogue
- Year
- 1778
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 152.7 x 214 cm (60 1/8 x 84 1/4 in.) framed: 180.3 x 241 cm (71 x 94 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Benjamin West
Artist
Painting
Benjamin West was an American-born painter who specialised in history painting, creating such works as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
1805 · pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue gouache heightened with white on wove paper mounted to board
Angel of the Resurrection, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography
1803 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in brown on cream wove paper
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1802 · lithograph
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- Benjamin West
- Year
- 1778
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 152.7 x 214 cm (60 1/8 x 84 1/4 in.) framed: 180.3 x 241 cm (71 x 94 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1778-269571
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified