Richard Cosway
1740-1821
Portrait of a Man (the Third Duke of Roxburghe?)
1789
9 1/4 x 5 9/16 inches (231 x 142 mm)
Pencil, red chalk, brown and blue watercolor, with touches of pen and black ink, on paper.
1966.2
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Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated in pencil across lower border of mount, "Cosway R A Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis Fecit 1789".
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 139.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 122-123.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 122-123.
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