Gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, lower left: "S H Grimm fecit 1771"; in gray ink, center right: "To Alderman | Paris"; in brown ink, verso, upper center: "The English lady at Paris - No. 8."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6037
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dog (animal) | caricature | tables (support furniture) | mirrors | sconces | sunsuits | genre subject | ruffle | men | women
Associated Places:
France | Paris
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2014-01-17 - 2014-04-20)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
Publications:
William Hauptman, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) : a very English Swiss, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2014, pp. 90-91, 93, cat. no. 19, NJ18.G81 H38 2014 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 102-3, no. 83, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)