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Half-length Portrait of a Man in Armor

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British School
18th century

Half-length Portrait of a Man in Armor

3 15/16 x 3 1/16 inches (100 x 77 mm)
Brush and gray wash, pen and brown ink over graphite on buff paper.
2004.49:69

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Fol. 42, no. 69 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Not in handlist of album.
Watermark: fragment.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on album sheet beyond lower right corner of drawing in graphite: By Thornhill?; above this in a different hand: no, Van der Bank; beyond upper right corner of drawing: 69.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department