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Brigadier-General B. Deley, Engineer 1750

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1750

Description

A pen and ink and watercolour drawing of a man standing in a panelled interior by a window, reading a book. Inscribed on an earlier mount, probably copied from an earlier one, 'Brig.-Gen. B. Deley, Engineer, 1750'. Sandby worked for the Board of Ordnance on the military survey of Scotland until about 1752. The drawing is probably one of his colleagues, although no Brigadier-General Deley has been identified in army lists of the period.
Descriptive Medium: 'Pen and ink and watercolour', 'pen and ink', 'watercolour painting'