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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.560.26
People
Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
Title
Mounted Figure Seen from Behind, after "The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Malplaquet"; verso: Man on Horseback, after "The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Malplaquet"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/179826

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.8 x 16.1 cm (7 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: top half of Britannia watermark [Full watermark: Britannia figure encircled with the words EJUSQUE / LIBERTATE / PRO PATRIA, the whole crowned; with countermark GR, crowned (similar to Churchill 225, also 219-236; similar to Heawood 214, also 201-221)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
W. A. White, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.560.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Reynolds's Sketch-Books", Athenaeum (May 24, 1856), no. 1491, pp. 655-656, p. 656
  • "(R)evolution in Art Across the Channel: Reynolds and the Continental Tradition", auct. cat., Société alsacienne pour le développement de l'histoire de l'art (Strasbourg, 1992), p. 219 (note 31)
  • Giovanna Perini, "I taccuini di Sir Joshua Reynolds: storia, identificazione, circolazione, fortuna", Souvenir d'Italie: il viaggio in italia nelle memorie scritte e figurative tra il XVI secolo e l'età contemporanea, ed. Maurizia Migliorini and Giulia Savio, De Ferrari (Genoa, Italy, 2008), pp. 395-431, p. 410

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