[Long eared horned animal] [art original].

Description

Title: [Long eared horned animal] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting a bovine, probably an ox.
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 at page 63 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: 1 drawing : sheet 20.5 x 26 cm
Language: No linguistic content

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

Access: Public
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Citation: Long Eared Horned Animal. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.