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Lord Barrington
Title
Lord Barrington [art original] / GPH [monogram] 1802.
Production
[England], [1802]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; image 11.6 x 10 cm, on sheet 13.7 x 13 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title inscribed in ink on verso.
Signed by the artist in watercolor in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
Dated by the artist below signature.
"Lord Barrington, fm. an original picture"--Below image, written on mount in pencil in a contemporary hand.
Formerly page 65 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
Portrait drawing of John Shute Barrington; half length, with head completed in detail and the rest in outline; wearing a long curled wig.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2017
References
G.P. Harding, Lord Barrington. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Lord Barrington. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Watercolors - British - 19th century.
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