[Fallen tree] [art original]

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Title: [Fallen tree] [art original]
Creator: Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1751-1812, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Ink drawing depicting part of a fallen tree in the foreground on the left; a castle sits atop a hill in the background on the right
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Signed by the artist in upper left corner.
Date of production based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in at page 205 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 14.2 x 20 cm, mounted to 19.1 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
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Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper wash-line mount.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Trees
Castles & palaces
Subjects: Trees
Castles & palaces
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford, Fallen Tree. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.