Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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 to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
