# Officer Seeking Shelter with his Wife and Children from a Storm (recto); Sketch of Castle on Hill (verso)

- By: Richard Westall (English, 1765-1836)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/115720)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6f00771030475997d863b496950dbf02.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)