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Title
[Horse] [art original] / J.V. Blomer. [Parade with chariot].
Production
[England?], [not after 1806]
Physical Description
2 drawings : gray wash, mounted on blue laid paper ; sheet 10.4 x 15 cm and sheet 6.9 x 7 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Titles from local catalog card.
Top drawing signed "J.V. Blomer" in pencil in lower left corner; bottom drawing unsigned.
Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which these drawings were found.
Formerly page 55 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Provenance
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Summary
Two wash drawings, one depicting a standing horse in front view, and the other depicting a procession in a city plaza involving dancing figures and a four-wheeled open carriage.
Variant and related titles
Parade with chariot
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2017
References
Horse. Parade with Chariot. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Horse. Parade with Chariot. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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