[Portrait of George Robins writing] [art original]

Description

Title: [Portrait of George Robins writing] [art original]
Creator: Bell, E., artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1842]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: The auctioneer George Robins is shown half-length, sitting at a large table with pen in hand, several leaves of paper in front of him
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Artist E. Bell's name is written in lower left corner of a separate sheet mounted below drawing. This separate sheet also contains a signed autograph letter from Thomas Dodd to an unidentified recipient.
Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.
Mounted on page 540 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Pickering & Chatto, March 1951.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 92 x 92 mm, mounted to 26 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 V Copy 7
Collection Title: Page 540. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]

Access: Public
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Citation: E. Bell, Portrait of George Robins Writing. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.