Thomas Davies – An Eighteenth-Century War Artist in British North America : War Art as Cultural Signifier

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Title
Thomas Davies – An Eighteenth-Century War Artist in British North America : War Art as Cultural Signifier
Abstract
Thomas Davies (c.1737-1812) was a British army officer and artist, known for his water colour scenes of Montreal and other locales in North America. The author argues that "such pictures do as much to promote the merits of peace as they do to record the disasters of war. It is in the war art of Thomas Davies from the mid-eighteenth century that the developing interest in British landscape painting is transmitted through the military picture."
Publication
Lumen: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/La Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle
Volume
Vol. 31
Pages
65-72
Date
2012
Language
en
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Citation
Bennett, lloyd. “Thomas Davies – An Eighteenth-Century War Artist in British North America : War Art as Cultural Signifier.” Lumen: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/La Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle Vol. 31 (2012): 65–72. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/lumen/2012-v31-lumen0356/1013067ar.pdf.
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