Henry Infante of Portugal, 1450 [art original] / Silva pinxit, copied from the Royal Printing House at Lisbon.
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1806]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : watercolor and black crayon on laid paper ; sheet 7.7 x 4.4 cm
- Notes:
- Title inscribed below image, in ink in a contemporary hand.
Statement of responsibility continues below title in the same hand, also in ink.
Above image is a possibly unrelated inscription in the same hand, in ink over pencil: Engraved from an authentic copy from the Royal Printing House at Lisbon.
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 is a trimmed manuscript note in ink: America. Vol. 1. 50. [...].
Formerly laid in with one other drawing at page 91 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].
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954. - Abstract:
- Portrait head of Henry, Infante of Portugal; turned slightly right; with short hair and a long beard.
- Topics:
- Drawing, English--18th century.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Henry,--Infante of Portugal,--1394-1460--Portraits. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Crayon drawings--British--18th century.
Portraits.
Watercolors--British--18th century. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 33 Box 3
- Orbis Record:
- 13087639
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25651
- Citation:
- Henry Infante of Portugal, 1450. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193676
- PID:
- digcoll:4047943
