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Long eared horned animal
Title
[Long eared horned animal] [art original].
Production
[England?], [not after 1806]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 20.5 x 26 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from local catalog card.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
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 this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in at page 63 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 bovine, probably an ox.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2017
References
Long Eared Horned Animal. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Long Eared Horned Animal. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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