Henry Infante of Portugal, 1450 [art original]

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Title: Henry Infante of Portugal, 1450 [art original]
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Portrait head of Henry, Infante of Portugal; turned slightly right; with short hair and a long beard
Description: Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand.
Statement of responsibility continues below title in the same hand, also in ink.
Above image is a possibly unrelated inscription in the same hand, in ink over pencil: Engraved from an authentic copy from the Royal Printing House at Lisbon.
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.
On verso is a trimmed manuscript note in ink: America. Vol. 1. 50. [...].
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 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].
Matted together with one other drawing to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
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.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 7.7 x 5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 18th century
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: watercolor and black crayon ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460,
Subjects: Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Henry Infante of Portugal, 1450. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.