[Girl reading] [art original].

Description

Title: [Girl reading] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Drawing of a young woman reading a book outside under a tree; wearing a long-sleeved dress, hair down and partially covered; head propped up on her left arm; an hourglass on a pedestal beside her, a bird on a tree branch in the background; a church visible in the distance
Description: Title from local catalog card.
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 laid in with one other drawing at page 109 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 one other drawing 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 : sheet 9.8 x 16 cm
Language: No linguistic content

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Citation: Girl Reading. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.