Jacobus Buys
1724-1801
A Suttee (?)
sheet: 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (158 x 118 mm); design area: 4 13/16 x 3 3/16 inches (122 x 80 mm)
Pen and black ink, and wash, on paper; framing line in black ink.
1983.91
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle.
Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing is presumably a design for a book illustration.
The drawing is presumably a design for a book illustration.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right, in margin below the design, in black ink, "J Buys f 1781". Inscribed at lower right corner of sheet, in graphite, "22 (encircled)".
Associated names
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 243.
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Century Drawings
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