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Colonel Coote Manningham (1766-1809)
Fort Royal, the lines of Port au Prince, Bizoton, L'Islet, the Bay and Leogane Point, from Port Robert. c. 1795
Pencil and watercolour | 61.3 x 130.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 917012
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A pencil and watercolour drawing of a landscape in Port-au-Prince (in modern day Haiti). Signed below: Coote Manningham Adjutant General and inscribed 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
61.3 x 130.5 cm (sheet of paper)
