Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Religious figure in robe [drawing].

BIB_ID
378396
Accession number
MA 1294.69
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The bookseller describes this work as "a fine original drawing in crayons of the Abbot of Newstead."
Title of drawing supplied by cataloger.
443 x 327 mm
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Original crayon portrait of a religious figure, possibly an Abbot of Newstead, holding a rosary in his right hand and with his left hand slightly outstretched.
Medium
crayon on paper.
Classification