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Portrait of a Man (Ralf Blundill?)

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British School
18th century

Portrait of a Man (Ralf Blundill?)

6 5/16 x 3 15/16 inches (159 x 101 mm)
Pen and brown ink over graphite on paper.
2004.49:67

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Fol. 41, no. 67 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson Sr. in handlist of album.
Watermark: fragment.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower center in pen and brown ink: From a picture done many years ago; beneath this in a different hand in graphite: of; and in a different hand in pen and brown ink: Ralf Blundill / at Greenwich 17 Aug. 1741.; on verso at lower center in pen and black ink: From a picture done many years before; beneath this at lower left in a different hand in pen and brown ink: Nir705 and at lower right: 2..6[?]; on album sheet beyond upper right corner of drawing in graphite: 67. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. stamped at center right.
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department