[Man in blue] [art original].

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Description

Title
[Man in blue] [art original].
Creator
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created
[not after 1778]
Publication Place
Paris?
Abstract

Drawing of a man, standing and turned towards the left. He wears a long white coat, open and unbuttoned, his blue waistcoat and breeches visible beneath. In his outstretched right hand is a tricorne; in his left hand, pulled in close to the hip, is a walking stick. Possibly a depiction of an actor in performance

Description
Title devised by curator.
Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch.
Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date.
One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 113 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Extent
1 drawing : sheet 8.6 x 6 cm
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Pencil works
Watercolors
Material
pencil and opaque watercolor with touches of gold on vellum ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Theatrical productions
Actors
Subjects
Theatrical productions
Actors
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
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Rights
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Citation
Johann Ludwig Wernhard Fäsch, Man in Blue. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13498061
Object ID (OID)
16729715

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