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Colonel Coote Manningham (1766-1809)
Cape Nicholas Mole from the Point of Presqu'Isle, St Domingo. c. 1795
Pencil and watercolour | 49.5 x 109.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 917011
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A pencil and watercolour drawing of a view of Cape Nicholas Mole. Signed on the mount: Coote Manningham Adjt. General, with the title.
One of a group of drawings by Col. Manningham described as 'received from His Majesty Aug. 23rd 1798', see RCIN 917063. Colonel Coote Manningham was an amateur artist who probably received instruction from William Payne.Manningham served as Adjutant General in the French attack on Santo Domingo (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in 1795.Provenance
Listed in George III's 'Inventory A', 1816, p.159.
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
49.5 x 109.0 cm (sheet of paper)
