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Mr. Bunberry, 1769
Title
Mr. Bunberry, 1769 [art original].
Production
[Florence], [1769]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink ; image 19 x 25 cm, on sheet 30.7 x 36 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title and date inscribed by the artist (?) in lower right.
Unsigned; attributed to Thomas Patch.
Inscribed below the title in a different hand: Drawn by Gezze at Florence.
From the same sheet as another drawing of "Valentino, Servitore di Piazza, 1769", now separated.
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Leonard Duke (1890-1971); sold Sotheby’s, 21 May 1979, lot 122 (£520), to W.A. Brandt. Purchased by the Lewis Walpole Library from Lowell Libson & Johnny Yarker Ltd, September 2023.
Summary
Profile portrait depicting the young traveller Henry Bunbury wearing an academic gown and mortar board. This drawing was used as the basis for Thomas Patch’s conversation piece of the interior of his Florentine studio painted in 1770 and now in the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington.
Publications
Reproduction: Watson, F.J.B. "Thomas Patch: Some new light on his work." Apollo, v. 85, Issue 63 (1967), pages 348-353.
Reproduction: Riley, John C. "Horace Walpole and the Second Hogarth." Eighteenth Century Studies, v. 9, no. 1 (1979), pages 30-31.
Variant and related titles
Mr. Bunbury, 1769
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2023
References
Thomas Patch, Mr. Bunberry, 1769. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Thomas Patch, Mr. Bunberry, 1769. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Ink drawings.
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