[Studies of heads] [art original]

Description

Title: [Studies of heads] [art original]
Alternative Title: Miscellaneous heads
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1795]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing of six heads mostly in profile, three men, two ladies, and one child, all wearing hats. One lady in the upper right is a view from the back with only a hit of her check shown while the man in the foreground is shown full-face. A drawing in the lower left has been heavily scored through. From the left margin mid-sheet is a drawing of a sleeved-wrist and hand hold a stick(?).
Description: Title from dealer's description; alternative title from Draper Hill.
Signed by the artist in lower right corner.
Date from Draper Hill.
A drawing from a sketchbook given by Gillray to the Rev. John Sneyd in the late 1790s.
Provenance: By descent to Ralph Sneyd, sold with his library, Sotheby's, 1927. The sketchbooks were broken up by Walter T. Spencer; later owned by F.A. Gibson; Draper Hill, his sale, Phillips, June 2001, lot 39. Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Andrew Edmunds, June 2018.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 17.2 x 12 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Studies (Visual works)
Watercolors British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: watercolor over pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Heads (Anatomy)
Children
Hats
Men
Women
Subjects: Heads (Anatomy)
Children
Hats
Men
Women
British > 18th century
Hill, Draper > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: James Gillray, Studies of Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.