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Prisoners of war

Prisoners of war
(1890)

Medium
etching

Measurements
15.1 × 20.0 cm (image and plate) 21.6 × 27.2 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Rye, Suffolk, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hardie 240; Strange 106

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) c.l.: Ye Quarter Boys yt looke out to sea from / (coat of arms) ye Belfrie tower of Rye Church & / mark ye hours till yt new Armada / comes to bryng them home to their / owne land of Spaine
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: S (in shield) / But the sandbanks grow & the sea line waxes dim And each one thinketh, / but to his brother sayeth not - 'Ah! that our watch mighten / end, and we could die - If Quarter boys ever die.
inscribed in pencil l.c.: Frank Short

Accession Number
1383.160-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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