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Costume Studies. Verso: Landscape

Benjamin West
1738-1820

Costume Studies. Verso: Landscape

4 13/16 x 7 inches (122 x 178 mm)
Pen and brown ink on oatmeal paper; verso: black chalk.
1970.11:210

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.

Notes
The three figures in the lower half of this drawing correspond to plates LXX, LXXVII, and LXXVIII of Joseph's Strutt's publication, "A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England," London, 1796-99. West probably had access to Strutt's manuscript in the King's Library.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed variously with color notations in pen and brown ink, "Black / Black Gold / Gold White".
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 44, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department