[Colonel Mark Wilkes.]
[Engraved by Charles Turner, after Charles Jagger?] [n.d., c.1820.] Very rare mezzotint, proof before letters. 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with large margins. A half-length portrait of Colonel Mark Wilks (1759-1831), an army officer who served during the storming of Srirangapatna in 1799, before becoming governor of St Helena in 1813. His three-year term included the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte. A pencil annotation attributes the painting to 'Jagger', probably Charles Jagger (1770-1824). Whitman 614?, possibly a plate in the Turner sale catalogue. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64968] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)