Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Sir Hans Sloane"; in graphite, lower left: "10 Sep 1740"; lower right: "131"; on verso in pen and brown ink, upper right: "Sir Hans Sloane"; in graphite, lower right: "Sir Hans Sloane | 10 Sep 1740"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4206
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Important English drawings and watercolours : 4 June 1974, Christie's, p.11, Lot no. 22, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Carol Gibson-Wood, Jonathan Richardson : Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment, New Haven and London, pp. 123-124, no. 64, N7483 R535 G53 2000 YCBACarol Gibson-Wood, Jonathan Richardson as a draughtsman, Master Drawings, vol. 32, 1994, p.214, Vertical File V0298 YCBA Also available online via JSTOR Arts & Sciences IIIPatrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 32-33, no. 33, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 16, no. 1, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)