Antus. Card. Granvilanus [art original].

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Title: Antus. Card. Granvilanus [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle; bust length, in profile to the right; with gray hair and beard; wearing a red cassock
Description: Title inscribed below image, in pencil in a contemporary hand.
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.
Formerly mounted with three other drawings on page 83 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 together with three other drawings 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 : oval image 7 x 6 cm, on sheet 11.5 x 9 cm
Language: Italian

Genre: Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: red and gray crayon ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, 1517-1586,
Subjects: Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, 1517-1586
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Antus. Card. Granvilanus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.