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Lot 323
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Benjamin West, P.R.A. 1738-1820

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Description

  • Benjamin West, P.R.A.
  • Study for Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea

  • pen and black ink over pencil, heightened with white on sheets of irregularly joined prepared paper, laid down on canvas

  • 48.5 by 88.8 cm., 19 by 33 in.

Catalogue Note

This recently discovered preparatory drawing relates to the now lost painting of Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea, exhibited by Benjamin West at the Royal Academy in 1794, (see Helmut von Erffa and Allan Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, 1986, no. 254).