1797-1798
24.8 × 51.8 cm (9 3/4 × 20 3/8 in.) frame: 39.4 × 67.3 cm (15 1/2 × 26 1/2 in.)
Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880), sold [through his sale, Christie’s, London, May 13, 1881, lot 87]; to Palser. Edward Cohen (1816-1880), by descent; to Mrs. Oswald, his niece. Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953). Sydney L. Courtauld (1840-1899), by descent; to Major (later Sir) Stephen Courtauld (1883-1967), 1899. [Agnew’s London, 1931], sold; to British Private Collector, by descent and sold; [through Christie’s, London, December 9, 2015, lot 213]. [Christie’s, New York, January 30, 2019, lot 110, passed]. [Sotheby’s, New York, January 26, 2022, passed], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022
Black crayon and graphite on gray prepared antique laid paper
18th centuryBritishGray wash on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryBritishBlack chalk and transparent watercolor, lead white applied dry, the whole dipped in skim milk, on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryBritishWatercolor on paper
18th-19th centuryBritishBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th-18th centuryBritish?Brown ink, red watercolor, and brown and gray wash over graphite on off-white laid paper
18th centuryBritishWatercolor and brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryBritishWatercolor over black chalk on heavy cream wove paper
18th centuryBritishBlack chalk and watercolor, heightened with lead white applied dry and dipped in skim milk, varnished, on antique laid paper
18th centuryBritishGraphite on white wove paper
18th centuryBritishDrawings: mostly black ink, brown wash, yellow wash on cream laid paper
18th centuryBritishGraphite on off-white modern laid paper
18th centuryBritish