"The archbishop of Gil Blas" [art original]

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Title: "The archbishop of Gil Blas" [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created: [1885]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: Watercolor drawing of the fictional archbishop in Lesage's novel Gil Blas; bust length, turned slightly right; overweight, with white hair and bushy white eyebrows; wearing a mitre, pectoral cross, and chasuble
Description: Title written below image.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 210.
Bound in as page 80 in volume 9 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 25.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Watercolors American 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747.
Subject (Topic): Bishops
Clergy
Subjects: Le Sage, Alain René, 1668-1747 > Illustrations
Bishops
Clergy
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: David Edward Cronin, "The Archbishop of Gil Blas". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.