[Butterfly] [art original].
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1806]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : gray wash on wove paper ; sheet 6.2 x 7.9 cm
- Notes:
- 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 three other drawings at page 51 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:
- Wash drawing depicting a butterfly viewed from above, with wings spread.
- Topics:
- Biological illustration.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Butterflies.
Wash drawings--British--19th century. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- 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 15-16 Box 2
- Orbis Record:
- 13082499
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25628
- Citation:
- Butterfly. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193654
- PID:
- digcoll:4048864
