William Walker, aged 105 [art original]
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Description
- Title
- William Walker, aged 105 [art original]
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1873?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
- Description
-
Title inscribed in pencil below image.
Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner.
Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727.
Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.).
Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations.
Formerly laid in at page 155 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 27.2 x 21 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 47 Box 5
- Collection Title
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Collection / Other Creator
- Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
- Collection Date
- [England], [not after 1806]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portrait drawings
Pencil drawings
Watercolors - Material
- graphite pencil with watercolor ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Walker, William, -1736,
- Subjects
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Walker, William, -1736
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- William Walker, Aged 105. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13097262
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193692
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