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Portrait of a Man (Timothy Thomas?)

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Attributed to Sir James Thornhill
1675-1734

Portrait of a Man (Timothy Thomas?)

8 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (208 x 146 mm)
Black chalk, some graphite, laid down on paper.
2004.49:41

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

Notes
Fol. 23, no. 41 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Sir James Thornhill in handlist of album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: JTh[?]; at lower left edge in pen and black ink: Timothy Thomas. chaplain to Lord Oxford. drawn by Sir J. Thornhill; on piece of paper laid down below bottom edge of drawing in graphite: This Fizz, so well drawn, you may easily know / was done by a kt for one Tim with an O.; in decorative border at lower left left in pen and black ink: N.B. the verses, are Mathew Prior's, and his own hand writing.; beyond decorative border at upper right in graphite: 41.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department