[Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

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Description

Title
[Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].
Published / Created
[not before 1774]
Publication Place
England?
Abstract

Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen

Description
Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 or 26 degrees. It was about the size of a large bullock.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Place of production based on the country of residence of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Date of production based on the year mentioned in the descriptive note for the animal's capture or killing.
Formerly laid in at page 59 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].
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Matted with manuscript note 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 15.9 x 21 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 20 Box 2
Collection Title
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Collection / Other Creator
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Collection Date
[England], [not after 1806]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Watercolors British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Material
watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Biological illustration
Subjects
Biological illustration > Early works to 1800
British > 18th century
J. Whatman
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ms. notes

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Rights
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Citation
Horned Animal 'About the Size of a Bullock'. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13083876
Object ID (OID)
16193658

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