[Butterfly] [art original].

Description

Title: [Butterfly] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting a moth viewed from above, with wings spread
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
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.
Formerly laid in with three other drawings at page 51 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 three other drawings 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 7.1 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Butterflies
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Biological illustration
Subjects: Biological illustration
British > 19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Butterfly. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.