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Curatorial Narrative Carlo Pellegrini's "Military and Navy; 'Order at Wimbledon', Colonel Lewis Guy Phillips, July 24, 1880" situates itself within the Victorian era, a time of grandeur and opulence. Created in 1880, this caricature embodies the artistic tendencies of its era, showcasing a masterful command of linear brushwork that imbues the scene with a sense of energy and dynamism. The artist's use of a predominantly gray, black, red, and white palette creates a chromatic structure that is at once both subdued and striking, evoking the formal grandeur of classical architecture. Pellegrini's intent is clear: to capture the essence of a moment in time, one replete with pomp and circumstance.When enlarged to 44x75, the artwork takes on a life of its own, its spatial depth and compositional structure assuming a prominence that is nothing short of breathtaking. The palette, too, undergoes a transformation, its constituent parts coales