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3-3/4 x 3 in. (image) 7-1/8 x 4-1/2 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberGift in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo O. Pantzer by their children
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteThe isolated figure at the top of the stairs must be Napoleon and Turner’s first biographer, Walter Thornbury, memorably described the figure in 1862 as “no larger and thicker than a gnat’s body, yet [the event] is seen directly and tells a complete story.”
Thornbury may have been describing either the watercolor, then in the collection of Turner’s friend Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar, or the engraving, which were both of the same size.
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