Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723-1792
Female Nude
16 1/16 x 11 1/4 inches (407 x 285 mm)
Black and white chalk, on paper.
1976.21
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: "I V".
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of drawing at upper right in pen and brown ink, "A true Sketch / By Sir J. Reynolds. / From the collection of / Dowager Marchioness of / Thomond / Sold By Me Christie, / Saturday May 26 Pall Mall 1821"; inscribed on verso of mount at left, in pen and black ink, a quotation from Edward Edwards, "Anecdotes of Painters" (1808 edition), 208; also provenance references (see under "Provenance" below); inscribed at right in pen and black ink in the same hand, "Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., / 1723-1792"; inscribed at right in graphite, "Ex collection of Sir Edward Marsh / all the inscriptions in Ink are in hand of (Her)bert Horne / G532 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 Case I".
Associated names
Palmer, Mary, 1750-1820, former owner.
Biggall, Edward, former owner.
Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Green, H. C., former owner.
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983, former owner.
Biggall, Edward, former owner.
Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916, former owner.
Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953, former owner.
Green, H. C., former owner.
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983, former owner.
Bibliography
English Watercolor Drawings, exhibition catalogue, London, Spink and Sons, Ltd., 1976, no. 115, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 286-287.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 286-287.
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Century Drawings
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