File:Claude Du Bosc after Hubert-François Gravelot, Monument of King William II of England in the Winchester Cathedral, c. 1743–1747, British Museum Y,8.110.jpg

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After Hubert-François Gravelot: The Monument of King William Rufus in the Cathedral Church of Winchester   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Claude Du Bosc (c. 1682–c. 1745)
After Hubert-François Gravelot  (1699–1773)  wikidata:Q981197
 
After Hubert-François Gravelot
Alternative names
Hubert-Francois Bourguignon Gravelot
Description French illustrator, engraver, painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 26 March 1699 / 28 March 1699 Edit this at Wikidata 20 April 1773 / 19 April 1773 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
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creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q981197
Title
The Monument of King William Rufus in the Cathedral Church of Winchester
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
A plain casket tomb in the flagged nave of Winchester Cathedral, with the altar beyond; surrounded by a rectangular frame with a quiver of arrows, scroll describing his accidental death in a stag hunt and oak branches above; arms, a crest of lions rampant tilted slightly to left, crown and flaming torches below; for Tindal's continuation of Rapin's 'History of England', published by Paul and James Knapton (1743-47). Etching and engraving with engraved lettering
Date circa 1743–1747
Medium etching print and engraving on paper
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Y,8.110
Credit line Donated in 1818 by Dorothea, Lady Banks
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Inscription type: inscription

Inscription content: Lettered in the scroll with two lines: 'Rex cervum insequitur ... transfixit acumine ferri...'; below the image with the title and 'Gravelot del / Cl. Du Bosc, Fecit'.
Source/Photographer print | British Museum
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