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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.560.1
People
Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
Title
List of Paintings by Assorted Artists; verso: blank
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/179908

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.8 x 16.1 cm (7 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: GR [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)]
  • inscription: graphite [transcribed by Giovanna Perini Folesani]: Charle[s] 1st on hors[e]back / Virgin & Bambino, St Joseph / St John, 2 Saints, 2 p[utti?] / Angel with a Crown, / by Titian[?], perhaps [his] / manner / Half lenght [sic] of Tintoret, with a Figure / & cornucopia / Virgin & Christ by Rubens / Bacanalians by Rubens / A whole lenght [sic] of a V[enus] / Virgin & Ch[rist] Bambino Ver[onese] / Christ like Corregio

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.560.1
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)
  • Callum Reid, "New Documents Concerning Annibale Carracci's 'Holy Family' in Melbourne", The Burlington Magazine (August 2015), CLVII, pp. 532-534, p. 534
  • Giovanna Perini Folesani, "Sir Joshua Reynolds Studia van Dyck a Blenheim Palace", Uno sguardo verso nord: Scritti in onore di Caterina Virdis Limentani, Il Poligrafo casa editrice (Padua, 2016), pp. 335-345, p. 338, note 10, pp. 343-345

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