Fighting Knights Before Castle

Attributed to Robert Ker Porter, c. 1800

A work made of pen and orange-red ink, with brush and gray wash, graphite, and traces of red chalk, on cream wove paper, squared in graphite. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Attributed to Robert Ker Porter ¹
Date: c. 1800 ¹
Medium: Pen and orange-red ink, with brush and gray wash, graphite, and traces of red chalk, on cream wove paper, squared in graphite ¹
Original: 3,000 × 2,618 px ¹
License: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago)
Credit: Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Object record, Art Institute of Chicago

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