Sr. Charles Hanbury Williams [art original].

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Title: Sr. Charles Hanbury Williams [art original].
Alternative Title: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams; half length, turned slightly right; wearing a jacket with star on left breast, buttoned at top button only; sash over left shoulder and across chest
Description: Title inscribed on mount below image, in ink 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.
Mounted with three other drawings on what was formerly page 89 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 6.9 x 6 cm, on sheet 7.6 x 7 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759,
Subjects: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
British > 19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Sr. Charles Hanbury Williams. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.