[Female figure] [art original].

Description

Title: [Female figure] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Drawing of a young woman sitting on the ground, her legs outstretched and crossed in front of her; hair pulled up; with a robe or sheet covering her lower half but leaving her breasts exposed
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.
On verso is a light sketch in pencil of a cherub.
Formerly laid in at page 113 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 16.2 x 12 cm
Language: No linguistic content

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Citation: Female Figure. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.