Sold for:
$178
$178
British School, 19th Century The Prison Norman Cross c. 1815., unsigned, titled and dated below. Watercolor and ink on paper, sight size 18 x 26 1/4 in., in a later molded and gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Creases, toning, foxing, not examined out of frame. Note: The prison near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, was built for prisoners of war, primarily sailors and marines of mostly French and Dutch origin, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1793-1815. This work depicts the prison a year following Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and before June of 1816, when the buildings were demolished.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-08-12
