[Horse] [art original]

Description

Title: [Horse] [art original]
Alternative Title: Parade with chariot
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Two wash drawings, one depicting a standing horse in front view, and the other depicting a procession in a city plaza involving dancing figures and a four-wheeled open carriage
Description: Titles from local catalog card.
Top drawing signed "J.V. Blomer" in pencil in lower left corner; bottom drawing unsigned.
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 these drawings were found.
Formerly page 55 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 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: 2 drawings : sheet 10.4 x 15 cm and sheet 6.9 x 7 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash ; and blue laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horses
Parades & processions
Subjects: Horses
Parades & processions
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horse. Parade with Chariot. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.