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Prisoners of war

Prisoners of war
 (1890)

Medium
etching
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
etching
Measurements
15.1 × 20.0 cm (image and plate) 21.6 × 27.2 cm (sheet)
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
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Monuments and Memorials
Subjects (specific)
automata belfries (spaces) bells (idiophones) clock towers (towers) putti (children) Rye (inhabited place) townscapes (representations) United Kingdom (nation)

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