Drawing of two doves in profile, facing each other and touching beaks; both stand on a quiver of arrows lying on its side
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., On verso are light sketches in pencil., Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 117 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.
Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of eight lines. "Under the Earth / Lies the skin / under the Skin / The Body / Of a Psyche Bitch / Wife of a Cupid Dog. / She lived very mild / And died with Child." Above the poem, in the upper left corner of the sheet, is written "Vive" in the same hand
Description:
In English., Title from first two lines of the poem., Attributed to René de Percy based on manuscript note in a different hand below poem: By [the] Abbé́ Percy échantillon of English., Date based on the death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 120 of 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.
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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.
Portrait drawing of William Walker, who supposedly lived to be 122 and was interred in 1736 at the church in Ribchester; half length, turned to the left; bald, with white beard; wearing a hooded robe and a belt
Description:
Title inscribed in pencil below image., Artist's monogram written in pencil in lower left corner., Probably a nineteenth-century copy of an eighteenth-century work; the likely place and date of production for the original work follows title: Wimpole, Aug. 23, 1727., Date of production based on parenthetical note on verso beneath copied biographical information about the sitter: (Mr. Bull's[?] handwriting - taken from a book of portraits by Robt. White, Sir James Thornhill, & George Vertue etc. belonging to my father. 1873. E.S.)., Sheet mutilated in lower right corner resulting in loss of further manuscript annotations., Formerly laid in at page 155 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.
