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Jousts in Smithfield
Title
Jousts in Smithfield [art original].
Production
[England], [ca. 1793]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink ; image 13.8 x 21 cm, on sheet 17.7 x 25 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title written in ink above image.
Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound.
Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound.
"From an ancient engraving upon wood, 1570"--Written in ink below image.
Mounted on page 256.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Lindsay Fleming, Aldwick Grange, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Sold at Sotheby's (Lindsay Fleming sale), lot 144, to Pickering & Chatto for W.S. Lewis, 23 March 1972.
Summary
A scene in Smithfield, London, with two mounted knights jousting in front of stands holding five spectators. Two additional knights, accompanied by their mounted and unmounted attendants, wait in the background; broken swords and lances litter the foreground.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 02, 2018
References
J. Tovey, Jousts in Smithfield. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
J. Tovey, Jousts in Smithfield. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
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