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Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'
Title
[Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].
Production
[England?], [not before 1774]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 15.9 x 21 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 or 26 degrees. It was about the size of a large bullock.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Place of production based on the country of residence of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Date of production based on the year mentioned in the descriptive note for the animal's capture or killing.
Formerly laid in at page 59 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
Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2017
References
Horned Animal 'About the Size of a Bullock'. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Horned Animal 'About the Size of a Bullock'. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman.
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