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- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7585
- Title
- Object: Robert E Lee
- Description
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Portrait; full-length on horseback riding to right, head turned and looking towards the viewer, holding field glasses in his left hand, wearing military uniform with a plain mid-length jacket, small satchel and hat; on a battlefield with two other riders following Lee, a wounded man on his knees in the left foreground who waves his hat, acclaiming him, and others by a broken fence to right; after Guillaume.
Mixed method on chine collé
- Production date
- 1860s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 744 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 604 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: American Civil War 1861-1865
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.7585
