[Five heads] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Five heads] [art original].
- Alternative Title
- Good morning to your nightcap
- Creator
- Kingsbury, Henry, fl. 1775-1804, artist
- Published / Created
- [1786]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Five men, heads and shoulders only. Three of the men face each other. The man on the top left wears a nightcap and pince-nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the top right looks down and wears the garb of a clergyman with a bishop's mitre on his head. The man on the bottom left wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long nose. The man in the bottom center looks cross-eyed at the other men. The man on the bottom right has a very bulbous nose and face
- Description
-
Two heads on left were copied for a print: Good Morning to your Nightcap. See Lewis Walpole Library impression (786.07.07.01).
Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Original drawing for 'Good Morning to Your Nightcap' Pubd by S.W. Fores July 7, 1786.
Henry Kingsbury, British painter and engraver, fl. 1775-1804 (see Brisith Museum online catalogue). - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 4.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 31.8 x 20 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings K55 no. 1 Box D130
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures
Ink drawings British 18th century - Material
- pen and ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Clergy
Hats
Noses - Subjects
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Clergy
Hats
Noses
British > 18th century
Access And Usage Rights
- 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 Kingsbury, Five Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8338337
- Object ID (OID)
- 10728158