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We are grateful to Alex Kidson for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.
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Property of a family
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)
Two partly dismembered sketchbooks: the first 7 sheets in a marbled paper binding, with drawings of a proposed house design and a letter; the second 17 sheets, unbound, with various head studies and some compositional drawings, including for Portrait of Mrs Morwood, The Death of General Wolfe, and King Lear
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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)
Two partly dismembered sketchbooks: the first 7 sheets in a marbled paper binding, with drawings of a proposed house design and a letter; the second 17 sheets, unbound, with various head studies and some compositional drawings, including for Portrait of Mrs Morwood, The Death of General Wolfe, and King Lear
the first inscribed and dated 'September 1792/ No 2/ Ark' (on the cover); the second variously inscribed throughout
pencil, pen and ink and wash
the first 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15 x 24.1 cm.); the second 6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (15.5 x 21 cm.)
(2)
Two partly dismembered sketchbooks: the first 7 sheets in a marbled paper binding, with drawings of a proposed house design and a letter; the second 17 sheets, unbound, with various head studies and some compositional drawings, including for Portrait of Mrs Morwood, The Death of General Wolfe, and King Lear
the first inscribed and dated 'September 1792/ No 2/ Ark' (on the cover); the second variously inscribed throughout
pencil, pen and ink and wash
the first 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15 x 24.1 cm.); the second 6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (15.5 x 21 cm.)
(2)
来源
Patricia Jaffé, and by inheritance to the present owners
荣誉呈献
Annabel Kishor
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