[Spanish arms, swords and matchlock] [art original].

Description

Title: [Spanish arms, swords and matchlock] [art original].
Published / Created: [ca. 1820?]
Publication Place: England?
Description: Titled devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Place and date of production inferred from publication place and date of the book in which the drawing is found.
In upper left, above the two depicted swords, is written in watercolor "Adml. De Winters sword, about 2 feet 6 inch long"; beside the handle of one of the swords is added "Adml. Duncan". In upper right, above the depicted coat of arms, is written "Spanish arms".
With another watercolor drawing on verso: [Spikes, ladle, hatchet, and other naval implements].
Mounted after page 276 (leaf numbered '55' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953, lot 285 of Derby sale, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 12.2 x 18.0 cm, inlaid to 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.4
Collection Title: Volume 4, after page 276. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.

Genre: Watercolors
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): De Winter, Jan Willem, 1761-1812.
Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804.
Subject (Topic): Coats of arms
Daggers & swords
Firearms
Subjects: De Winter, Jan Willem, 1761-1812
Duncan of Camperdown, Adam Duncan, Viscount, 1731-1804
Coats of arms
Daggers & swords
Firearms

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Citation: Spanish Arms, Swords and Matchlock. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.