Original etching after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery. It shows George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), the general who defended Gibraltar during the Great Siege, holding the key of the fortress with a cannon behind him.
Original etching after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery. It shows George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), the general who defended Gibraltar during the Great Siege, holding the key of the fortress with a cannon behind him.
Medium: Etching.
Artist / after: After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792).
Engraver: Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888).
Date: 1890.
Source: The Magazine of Art, London.
Dimensions: Plate mark 8.3 x 6.2 in (21 x 15.7 cm).
Condition: Good condition, image clean; the paper keeps the marks of the mat in which it was mounted.