The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec (September, 1759)

Edward Penny|R. Sayer and J. Bennett

October 10, 1779 · Mezzotint, hand colored · Drawings and Prints

Penny painted several versions of the "Death of General Wolfe." The best known was exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1764 and is now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A smaller and slightly altered composition, now Petworth House, Sussex, was engraved by Richard Houston and published by R. Sayer in January 1772. The present mezzotint is later, oriented vertically rather than horizontally, and published by Sayer and Bennet, with the engraver not identified.

Artist

Edward Penny|R. Sayer and J. Bennett

Date

October 10, 1779

Medium

Mezzotint, hand colored

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924