print
- Museum number
- 1856,0510.3
- Title
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Object: Greek Fugitives
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Series: Royal Gallery of British Art
- Description
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A group of women, children and an old man seated, and another man standing with a shotgun on a hillside, looking with worried expressions at a group of soldiers, wearing turbans and wielding swords, riding down a path below burning buildings on the hilltop at right; at left, a woman bandaging the arm of a wounded man holding a white flag, signalling to boats at sea, and a Greek orthodox priest holding a cross over a dying man; palm tree at centre left, rocky coastline in the distance; after Eastlake; state before title. 1838
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1838
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres
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Width: 505 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- According to the register 1856,0510.1 to 48 (proofs of Finden's 'Gallery of British Art') were purchased at an unidentified sale at Sotheby's.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0510.3