Lieut Genl. Sir Eyre Coote KB. KC. & MP.
Drawing
ca. 1815 (drawn)
ca. 1815 (drawn)
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Drawing
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| Title | Lieut Genl. Sir Eyre Coote KB. KC. & MP. (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash, touched with white |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Lieut Genl. Sir Eyre Coote KB. KC. & MP.', about 1815, by William Marshall Craig |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title, and on the back with artist's accounts |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt fr Abbott & Holder, March 1968, £10'. [SD.275:1-4] |
| Historical context | It is likely that all four portraits [SD.275:1-4] are copies after engravings. Three of these generals played distinguished parts in the British campaign in Egypt, 1801. SD.275:1 is probably after an engraving lettered `...by T. Bonner from a Miniature... by W. Haines', in The Royal Military Panorama or Officer's Companion, 4 vols, 1812-4, Vol.II, May 1813. Sir Eyre Coote (1762-1823), General; commanded the British blockade of Alexandria, 1801; in 1816 declared `eccentric' and dismissed from the army. Other portraits of the sitter are described in R. Ormond & M. Rogers (ed.), Dictionary of British Portraiture, Vol.II, Later Georgians and Early Victorians, compiled by E. Kilmurray, 1979 and in R. Walker, Regency Portraits, 2 vols, NPG, 1985. |
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| Accession number | SD.275:1 |
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| Record created | June 9, 2008 |
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