Thomas Bardwell, 1704–1767, BritishFormerly James Wills, active 1740–died 1777, British
Title:
A Notebook of Portrait Compositions
Date:
ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:
Volume of fifty-four pen and ink and watercolor drawings on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 5 3/8 inches (13.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on front endpaper in graphite: "Kneller"; in brown ink: "Black Turkey gilt | Leaves plain sides, Cut to | this size, & not pasted down | mind to place all even at | the Head, and let ym lie as they | now do."; inscribed on verso of front endpaper in graphite: "English Artist working c. 1730 | Record of his own work. | ? Rev. James Wills D. 1776"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.9618
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Provenance:
Created by Thomas Bardwell (1704-1767), the artist; probably acquired by William Henry van Nassau van Zuylestein, fourth Earl of Rochford (1717-1781); by descent to his nephew, William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, fifth Earl of Rochford (1754-1830); bequest, to his half-grandnephew, William Alexander Archibald Hamilton, eleventh Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863); by descent to his son, William Douglas-Hamilton, twelfth Duke of Hamilton (1845-1895); by descent to his daughter, Lady Mary Louise Graham (née Douglas-Hamilton), Duchess of Montrose (1884-1957); …; acquired by Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), 7a Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, England [a]; acquired by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1961; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1977. Citations: --- [a] Ellen Miles, "A Notebook of Portrait Compositions by Thomas Bardwell, " The Volume of the Walpole Society 53 (1987): 181-92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42581376 and https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/469951