[Charles I] [art original].

Description

Title: [Charles I] [art original].
Published / Created: [approximately 1820?]
Publication Place: England?
Description: Title 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.
On verso is an engraved portrait of Charles I by Wenceslaus Hollar, of which this drawing is a stylized tracing in reverse. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,2.53.
Mounted after page 286 (leaf numbered '102' 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 : oval image 13.0 x 10 cm, on sheet 15.9 x 11 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 286. 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.

Access: Public
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Citation: Charles I. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.