verso Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
verso Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.560.29
People
Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
After Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
After Bartolommeo Schedoni, Italian (Formigine, Italy 1578 - 1615 Parma, Italy)
Title
Blank page; verso: Virgin and Child, after Schedoni; Child, after Van Dyck
Other Titles
Former Title: Blank page; verso: Two Children and a Mother Playing with Her Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/179942

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: 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)]

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
1919.560.29
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. 656p. 656
  • 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, pp. 338-339, verso repr. p. 336 as fig. 2

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