View up a river with wooded banks [Bray album]<br><p>No. 7 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)
</p><p>While the location is unspecific, this appears to be a European landscape and may be a view near Deal, Kent, if  it is related to other items in the album from which it comes. 
</p><p>It is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.<br></p>
View up a river with wooded banks
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Gabriel Bray</div>
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