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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

St Michael

Raphael Lamar West
1769-1850

St Michael

26 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches (672 x 436 mm)
Graphite on paper; squared and numbered for transfer.
1970.11:103

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.

Notes
There is an almost identical West drawing, though in reverse, in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino. The squaring and numbering on the Morgan sheet suggest that the drawing was executed in preparation for a painting or a print.
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 225, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department