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Officer Seeking Shelter with his Wife and Children from a Storm (recto); Sketch of Castle on Hill (verso)
Richard Westall (English, 1765-1836)
c. 1800/20
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash and watercolor, scraped to create highlights, heightened with gum varnish (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove card
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 39 × 31.6 cm (15 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
