[Love birds] [art original].

Description

Title: [Love birds] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Drawing of two doves in profile, facing each other and touching beaks; both stand on a quiver of arrows lying on its side
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 are light sketches in pencil.
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 117 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 one other drawing 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 9.5 x 13 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and brown ink with ink wash and pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Birds
Doves
Subjects: Birds
Doves
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

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