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Attributed to Jonathan Richardson
1665-1745
Portrait of a Lady (Mary Hervey?)
5 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (133 x 117 mm)
Graphite on vellum. Framing line in graphite.
2004.49:31
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 13, no. 31 in the Bull Album.
Sheet with decorative border on which drawing is mounted has been cut out and mounted to album leaf covering another decorative border .
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr. in Fairfax Murray. Sitter identified in Fairfax Murray as "Mary, daughter of Brigadier Colonel Nicholas Le Pell. Married John Lord Hervey, Oct. 25th, 1720."
Sheet with decorative border on which drawing is mounted has been cut out and mounted to album leaf covering another decorative border .
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr. in Fairfax Murray. Sitter identified in Fairfax Murray as "Mary, daughter of Brigadier Colonel Nicholas Le Pell. Married John Lord Hervey, Oct. 25th, 1720."
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: [illegible] (effaced); overwritten in pen and black ink: Lady Hervey.; at lower center in graphite: [illegible] (effaced); on verso at center in graphite: Lady Hervey / Miss Lapelle.; within decorative border at lower center in pen and black ink: MARY, Daughter of General Nicholas Le Pell, married to JOHN, Lord / Hervey. Oct.25.1720. drawn from the life by J: Richardson.; on album leaf beneath drawing in graphite: 5685 / i/gh/.; beyond decorative border at center right: Richardson; at upper left: x 19; at upper right: 31. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. inscribed at lower right in graphite, R, overwritten in pen and black ink.
Associated names
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 20, repr.
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Century Drawings
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