Thomas Stothard

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Thomas Stothard

1755-1834

Robinson Crusoe Washed against a Rocky Shore

Pen and brown ink and wash, with white tempera, on paper; ruled margin in pen and brown ink.

Full sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches (146 x 97 mm); design area: 5 3/16 x 3 3/8 inches (133 x 85 mm)

Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of John D. Barrett.

1981.23

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Unused design for pl. 3 of Daniel Defoe, "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner", London: John Stockdale, 1790.
The artist used a variant of this design for the actual plate in the 1790 edition of the Defoe classic. The present drawing was, however, apparently used as the frontispiece for an extra-illustrated copy of Anna Eliza Stothard Bray, Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A., with personal reminiscences, by Mrs. Bray..., London: J. Murray, 1851. (Mrs. Bray née Anna Eliza Kempe, was the widow of the artist's son, Charles Stothard.)

Inscription:

Signed in margin at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "T. Stothard R. A. del".

Provenance:

Black Sun Books, New York, 1976; Charles Ryskamp, Princeton.

Associated names:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 301-302.

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