Woolwich cadets exercising, c. 1835

Original watercolor signed bottom right 'A. Penley; perspective view of an imaginery town surrounded by a regular bastioned fortification with ravelins and moat, soldiers in foreground within gabion barricades and emplacements overlooking town. Original watercolor signed bottom right 'A. Penley; perspective view of an imaginery town surrounded by a regular bastioned fortification with ravelins and moat, soldiers in foreground within gabion barricades and emplacements overlooking town. Penley taught Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur to paint and was also Professor of Drawing at Addiscombe College from 1851 to its dissolution, after which he held a similar post at Woolwich Academy till his death. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Edwin_Penley) Title supplied by cataloger. N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1951.