Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Lot 103

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

Lord Nelson Overseeing the Battle of the Nile

Closed6 December 2012

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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
Lord Nelson Overseeing the Battle of the Nile
signed 'Andrew Wyeth' (lower right)
watercolor and gouache on paper
12¼ x 17¾ in. (31.1 x 45.1 cm.), image

Commissioned by the National Geographic Society.

Specialist note

This work was commissioned in 1947 for an issue dedicated to and titled "The British Way." The present lot, however, went unpublished due to a naval historian questioning some of the historical accuracy.