[Man and woman] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Man and woman] [art original].
- Creator
- Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1778]
- Publication Place
- Paris?
- Abstract
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Drawing of a man and woman, standing across from one another and apparently engaged in conversation. The man, standing on the left and facing right, gestures toward the woman with his left hand; he wears a blue jacket and breeches, has a holstered sword on his left hip, and holds a tricorne in his right hand. The woman, standing on the right and facing left, wears a purple and green dress and holds a fan(?) in her right hand. Possibly a depiction of a scene from a play
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch.
Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date.
One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 113 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 8.2 x 11.7 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pencil works
Watercolors - Material
- pencil and opaque watercolor with touches of white on vellum ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Theatrical productions
Actors
Actresses - Subjects
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Theatrical productions
Actors
Actresses
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > 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
- Johann Ludwig Wernhard Fäsch, Man and Woman. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13497977
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729713
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