[Turk on galloping horse] [art original].

Description

Title: [Turk on galloping horse] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Drawing of a mounted Turkish warrior racing to the left and looking back over his shoulder to the right, all four of his horse's outstretched legs off the ground; wearing striped pants, a red fur-collared coat, and a green turban; holding a curved saber in his right hand and grasping the reins with his left hand; a spear with a red flag near the tip rises from his back; tents and pyramids in the background
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 the ink inscriptions "My dear" and "(Edith Swinburne)."
Formerly laid in at page 167 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 17.7 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cavalry
Turkish
Subjects: Cavalry > Turkish
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Turk on Galloping Horse. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.