[Four heads] [art original]

Description

Title: [Four heads] [art original]
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
Published / Created: [1732]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A drawing of the heads of three men and one woman. In the upper left is the head of a bearded man, facing left in profile, with identification in Greek letters written below and dated above on the left edge "May 29th". In the upper right is the head of a woman, looking downward and turned slightly right and dated "30th". The bottom two heads are men in profile looking left, the one on the right is bearded and the one on the left clean-shaven; the dates "June 1st" and "1st" are written to the left and right
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Statement of responsibility written in ink at bottom of sheet.
With pencil annotation "1732" in a later hand at top of sheet.
Bound in after page 128 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of engravers ... Strawberry Hill, 1765.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate, with his manuscript notes in the volumes; probably sold by King and Lochée, 4 December 1810 (Kirgate Sale), lot 386, to Denley. Later owned by Robert Hartshorne of Highlands, NJ, with his bookplate in the first volume of the set. Sold Parke-Bernet, 30 October 1945 (Hartshorne sale), lot 393, to Brick Row for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 22.6 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Heads (Anatomy)
Subjects: Heads (Anatomy)
British > 18th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Hartshorne, Robert > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Horace Walpole, Four Heads. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.