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Sun Breaking Through Clouds, with Two Female Figures

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Richard Westall
1765-1836

Sun Breaking Through Clouds, with Two Female Figures

5 1/8 x 4 5/16 inches (130 x 110 mm)
Watercolor on card.
1986.2126

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso: Westall.
Summary

Drawing shows a female figure, at left, with her arms raised in a gesture of triumph as she stands in the midst of dark clouds pierced by sunlight; at right, another female figure, bedecked with jewels and with her hair disheveled, reclines with one hand to her head in an attitude of distress.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department