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Study for The Battle of La Hogue [recto]
1778
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 30.6 × 50.6 cm (12 1/16 × 19 15/16 in.) mount: 45.1 × 61.3 cm (17 3/4 × 24 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.90.1.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Benjamin West. Study for The Battle of La Hogue [recto]. Benjamin West; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_West,_Study_for_The_Battle_of_La_Hogue_(recto),_1778,_NGA_72874.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Study for The Battle of La Hogue [recto] — Benjamin West. 1778.
Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 30.6 × 50.6 cm (12 1/16 × 19 15/16 in.) mount: 45.1 × 61.3 cm (17 3/4 × 24 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.90.1.a. Avalon Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.