[The shot put] [art original].

Description

Title: [The shot put] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Drawing of a young man, full length, twisted in preparation to throw a ball(?) with two cords attached(?) that is held in his left hand; with medium-length hair; naked except for a cloth tied around his shoulder and draped across his hips
Description: Title from local catalog card.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 109 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 together with one other drawing 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 16.9 x 12 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and brown ink, gray wash and white crayon ; and gray-blue laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: The Shot Put. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.