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The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him Wall Art
ART BY: Philip James de Loutherbourg
The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him Wall Art
ART BY: Philip James de Loutherbourg
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The guards in charge of a prisoner chained to the wall are talking to him is an engravings by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812). The artist is catalogued as French. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 4634 px (6.2 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 84 works by Philip James de Loutherbourg, a French artist.
Philip James de Loutherbourg, RA was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon". He also had an interest in faith-healing and the occult, and was a companion of the confidence-trickster Alessandro Cagliostro.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Philip James de Loutherbourg →
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