View of Valenciennes from the Battery at the End of the Avenue

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Artist/Maker	Farington, Joseph (artist)
Place of origin	Netherlands (made) Great Britain (made)

Watercolour showing a view of Valenciennes.

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Categories	Drawings War Topography
Object type	Drawing
Title	View of Valenciennes from the Battery at the End of the Avenue (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	watercolour Water-Colour Drawing
Brief description	'View of Valenciennes from the Battery at the End of the Avenue', watercolour, Netherlands or Great Britain, Joseph Faringdon, 1793
Physical description	Watercolour showing a view of Valenciennes.
Dimensions	Height: 19.375in Width: 32.625in Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Marks and inscriptions	(Inscribed with title and notes about nature of ground, trenches etc.)
Credit line	From the Miss Tyrwhitt Collection, given by Mr G. McN. Rushworth
Object history	In 1793, Joseph Farington was sent by William Wyndham, MP for Norwich, to the Netherlands to prepare illustrations for an official record of the siege of Valenciennes, (see references).
Place depicted	Valenciennes
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930. Information taken from: http://web.archive.org/web/20230117125712/https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9161
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2455-1929

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O752893/view-of-valenciennes-from-the-drawing-farington-joseph/

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