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Creator	Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British
Title	Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the Gazette Announcing the Battle of Waterloo
Alternate Title(s)	Sketch for Chelsea Pensioners receiving the announcement of the Battle of Waterloo
Date	ca. 1819
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	10 1/2 x 17 inches (26.7 x 43.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/ Marks/ Lettering	Signed in brown paint, lower left: "Wilkie"
Credit Line	Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accession Number	B1974.3.24
Collection	Paintings and Sculpture
Link to This Record	http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666752
Subject Terms	babies \| battle \| celebrating \| children \| cityscape \| costume \| gazette \| genre subject \| historical subject \| horse (animal) \| people \| politics \| signs \| soldier \| street \| surprise \| tankards \| tavern
Place Represented	Chelsea \| England \| Europe \| Greater London \| United Kingdom
Publications	David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, p.37, 69-71, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA) Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 73, ND466 G67 (YCBA) A Triad of Painters: Fuseli, Wilkie, and Cruikshank, Home Magazine, 8, T.S. Arthur Publisher, Philadelphia, August 1856, p. 108, Available Online via American Periodicals database , Also available in hard copy: A89 L12846 (LSF) Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Sir David Wilkie, G.Bell, London, 1902, p. 46, NJ18 W665 G68 (YCBA) Lindsay. Errington, Tribute to Wilkie from the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, p. 65, fig. 50, NJ18 W665 E77 (YCBA) John Morrison, Painting the Nation: Identity and Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1921, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003, p.34-36, ND478.M67 2003 (YCBA)
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