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.

Oliver Cromwell Pointing to the Mace

Benjamin West
1738-1820

Oliver Cromwell Pointing to the Mace

6 1/16 x 5 3/8 inches (154 x 137 mm)
Black chalk on blue paper; laid down.
1970.11:27

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

Notes
This is a preliminary sketch for West's historical painting, "Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament," 1782, now at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "74" in graphite by a later hand at the lower left corner of the old mat.
Associated names
Francis, Claire, 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. 37.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department