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Attributed to Jonathan Richardson
1665-1745
Portrait of a Man (Thomas Caverly?)
6 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches (167 x 130 mm)
Metalpoint, some graphite, on vellum.
2004.49:33
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 15, no. 33 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr., in Fairfax Murray. A less finished version of this drawing, by Jonathan Richardson, Sr., is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr., in Fairfax Murray. A less finished version of this drawing, by Jonathan Richardson, Sr., is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (by the artist?) at lower center in graphite: Mr[superscript "r"] [period under "r"] Thomas Caverly Decr[superscript "r"] 2. 1740. Dancing Master; on verso at lower right: Mr[superscript "r"] Tho. Caverly. / 2 Dec. 1740.; beyond decorative border at upper left in graphite: x 21; at upper right: 33. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. stamped at lower right and on verso at lower right.
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, 36, repr.
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Century Drawings
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