Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield
1856-1942
Caricature of John Ruskin
10 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches (272 x 225 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite, on Bristol board.
1984.35
Gift of Antoinette Howell in memory of her husband, Warren Richardson Howell.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed variously: below, "A MODERN ART PROFESSOR;" on pendandts suspended from two trumpets, "LECTURES / AT OXFORD / 1877," on one, and "MODERN / PAINTERS," on the other; from bell of first trumpet, "SELF" (six times), from bell of other trumpet, "TURNER" (seven times).
Associated names
Howell, Antoinette, former owner.
Howell, Warren Richardson, former owner.
Howell, Warren Richardson, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 319-320.
Classification
Century Drawings
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