[Head of a satyr] [art original].

Description

Title: [Head of a satyr] [art original].
Contributor: Ashley, Jeconiah, -1744, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1740?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Ink drawing depicting the head of a satyr, in profile to the left. Possibly a decorative motif designed by the London goldsmith Jeconiah Ashley, whose name is written on both the recto and the verso of the mount
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production from local catalog card.
Below image on mount is the name "Jeconiah Ashley" written in ink, possibly in the hand of Horace Walpole. On verso of mount in a different(?) contemporary hand is written: Jeconiah Ashley, goldsmith, opposite the New Church in the Strand.
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 121 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 two 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 : sheet 3.8 x 4 cm, mounted to 8.9 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper wash-line mount.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Head of a Satyr. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.