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Cavalry Engagement
Cavalry Engagement
Date:
early 18th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
18th Century AD
Media:
Pen And Brown Ink Over Black Chalk On Laid Paper Mounted To A Heavier Sheet
Dimensions:
Sheet: 205 x 272 mm (8 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Department:
Achenbach Foundation
Object Type:
Drawing
Country:
Italy
Continent:
Europe
Provenance:

Provenance: Joseph Green Cogswell; Mortimer Leo Schiff; Moore S. Achenbach;
Cogswell no.250 , Hellman no.225 as “Battle Scene” by Jacomo Cortese, Il Borgognone (George S. Hellman, Original Drawings by the Old Masters: The Collection formed by Joseph Green Cogswell, 1786-1871, New York: privately published, 1915);
Suggested attribution from old file:
A.M. (Agnes Mongan ) (July 1972): Not Borgognone. Attribution to Perraccini, with reference to similar battle scene on the back of a letter (i.e. 1963.24.101);

Accession Number:
1963.24.106
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

battle scene with two armed men on horseback approaching each other, fallen horse and rider in foreground, and other figures

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