Live Auction 5433Old Master & British Pictures & Old Master Drawings
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A. (Strasburg 1740-1812 Chiswick)
Lot 415

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A. (Strasburg 1740-1812 Chiswick)

Smugglers on the English coast

Closed2 December 2008

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GBP 625

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Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A. (Strasburg 1740-1812 Chiswick)
Smugglers on the English coast
pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, oval
9 x 12½ in. (228 x 317 mm.)

Specialist note

The aquatint, dedicated to the actor and theatre manager David Garrick (1717-1779) who employed Loutherbourg as a stage designer in his Drury Lane Theatre, was published by Victor-Marie Picot on 9 January 1776.