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    A Boy wearing a Cap

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    A Boy wearing a Cap
    A Boy wearing a Cap
    A Boy wearing a Cap
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    A Boy wearing a Cap
    Date
    c.1751-52 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk on white paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 144 x 142 mm
    Imperial: 5 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.
    Collection
    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    WA1855.131
    Wilson Online Reference
    D35
    Description
    A half-length male figure, facing to the front, his head turned half left and slightly inclined, his proper left hand and arm resting on a table in front of him; he wears a jacket and rounded, close-fitting cap with a small peak.
    Exhibited
    Baltimore 1979-80 (56)
    Provenance
    Chambers Hall Gift, 1855
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower right corner: Chambers Hall (Lugt 551)
    [2] Lower right corner: Oxford University Galleries (Lugt 2003)
    Critical commentary
    Indications of a drawing verso can be seen through the paper
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    1884
    Bibliography
    Brown 1982, pp. 657-58, no. 1884, pl. 537
    Condition/Conservation
    In an old mount with a grey wash border, which has been cut down

    Exhibitions

    • Baltimore Museum of Art, USA, 1979-80

    Biographies

    • Chambers Hall (1786-1855)

    Documents

    • David Blayney Brown, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume IV: The Earlier British Drawings, British Artists and Foreigners working in Britain born before c.1775
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