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.
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.
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