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., and Original case shelved separately.
A painting on metal showing Tobias with an angel; on the right a view of the landscape, beyond a large rock in the foreground. According to the story in the Book of Tobit (5.5-6) Tobit's son Tobias meets an angel without realising he is an angel. The angel tells Tobias what to do with a giant fish that Tobias has caught (Book of Tobit, 6.2-9).
Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
Description:
Title from local card catalog record., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants., Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions., and Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.