The Saluting Battery, Line Wall, Gibraltar
J M Carter
Thomas Coleman Dibdin (1810 - 1893)
Colour lithograph
published 1846-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Gibraltar
City: Gibraltar
Place: Governor's Residence, The Convent
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About the artist
Amateur artist J. M. Carter had a career in the army and rose to the position of Captain of the Royal Regiment. However, he also exhibited oil paintings at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. When he exhibited at the Academy in 1842, he was probably serving overseas, because his work was sent ‘c/o Mr. F. Grant’ (Francis Grant, later President of the Royal Academy). Carter and Grant may have been friends; Carter had exhibited a view of Grant’s home in Regent’s-park’ (presumably a drawing) at the Academy in 1839. Carter was in Gibraltar by 1844 and two years later published his ‘Select Views of the Rock and Fortress of Gibraltar’, including 14 plates. By 1847, he was living in Monmouth, in Wales.
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Explore
- Places
- Strait of Gibraltar, North Africa, Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain
- Subjects
- topography, tree, hill, sea, man, turban, cannon ball, artillery battery, cannon, soldier, house, fortress, ship
- Materials & Techniques
- lithograph, colour lithograph
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Details
- Title
- The Saluting Battery, Line Wall, Gibraltar
- Date
- published 1846
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Dimensions
- height: 50.2 cm; width: 60 cm; depth: 2.5 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1956
- GAC number
- 3641