Two watercolor drawings: above, a white moth on a leaf and a beetle; below, a single beetle
Alternative Title:
Beetle
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials; bottom drawing is mounted upside down, causing the initials to appear inverted in upper right., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 17 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., and Original case shelved separately.
William Pitt, wearing a tricorn hat and large sword at his side, stands defiantly shouting at a group of four men and one woman. He holds a rolled document in his fist behind him. One of the men, his hands outstretched as if to hold off Pitt or calm him down, confronts him while his companions cower behind him. The woman has fallen to her knees and turns in terror
Alternative Title:
Dreaded apparition
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Undated, but possibly just after Pitt's death; signed in lower right., Written in pencil in another hand: Vide Life of Mr. Pitt by the Bishop of Winchester. Page 285 - Vol. 1., and Written in pencil on verso in a later hand: Dreaded apparition.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and date from local card catalog record., and One drawing from a series of five watercolors illustrating scenes from Samuel Johnson's The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Title from dealer's catalog., Signed and dated A.A. Trail. 1832 in lower left., and Inscribed on verso in unknown hand: No. 1, Youngest son of the Honble Thos Erskine by Ann Agnes Trail.