Sheet of Notes

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Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.31 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "J Hule [illegible] / Canterbury [illegible] / Lane / Cumberland Lodge / G. Stubbs / 1 Sir W.llm Meadows / on a brown horse in riding school / - v.f. / 2. Mr Hills riding in Park / 3. M Jan[?]" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to George Stubbs (British equestrian painter, 1724-1806), Robert Home (British portrait painter, 1752-1834), 'Portrait of Sir William Meadows' Cumberland Lodge in Regent's Park, London.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.