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Dominic Serres: View of the Siege of Havana   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Dominic Serres  (1722–1793)  wikidata:Q3035468
 
Dominic Serres
Alternative names
Dominic Serres the Elder
Description British-French painter
Date of birth/death 1722 Edit this at Wikidata 1793 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Auch Marylebone (London)
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London (1758–1793); Spain; Hamburg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q3035468
Title
View of the Siege of Havana
label QS:Len,"View of the Siege of Havana"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
A view of the city from the North West, with the Moro Castle, with His Majesty's Sloops of War, Bonetta and Cygnet, assisting to open the booms, and His Majesty's land forces in flat boats going to take possession of the Punto Castle and the North Gate of the city, 14th August 1762
Date 1767
date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 51.5 cm (20.2 in); width: 77 cm (30.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,51.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,77U174728
Object history Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1919, lot 44 (as two of a set of four, entitled 'Harbour Scenes, with men-of-war'), to Margi
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D. Serres. 1767
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 09 July 2014, lot 60
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