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British School
18th century
Portrait of a Man (Mathew Prior?)
12 3/8 x 8 inches (315 x 204 mm)
Red chalk, black chalk, with white chalk, on cream paper prepared with a peach-colored wash.
2004.49:54
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 34, no. 54 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Watermark: foolscap.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Watermark: foolscap.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower edge in pen and black ink: Mathew Prior . from the late Dutchess of Portland's Collection, sold after her death.; on verso at lower right: 7/0, beneath this: 157; beneath this: No [o superscript] 43 [illegible] 2579; on album leaf at lower right of drawing in graphite: after ptg by JRichardson.
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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