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- Title:
- John Flaxman
- Date:
- 1778
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 12 9/16 × 13 11/16 inches (31.9 × 34.8 cm), Sheet: 11 7/8 × 13 inches (30.2 × 33 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, with brown ink, verso, lower center: "Flaxman Jun. Sculptor | [O:H: Jn.] 1778 - Londini-"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "D3442 | Ozias Humphry RA 1742-1810 | Portrait of John Flaxman RA | 1755-1826 | [Get] 22 or 25 | the DNB refers to his curly hair and | fine eyes | LGD"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5449
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10943
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Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Lady Lever Art Gallery, British watercolours and drawings, Lord Leverhulme's collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery , Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2010, p. 119, N1455 A85 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nadia Tscherny, George Romney : Flaxman modelling the bust of Hayley, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1985 ?, p. 7, no. 13, V 0101 (YCBA) [YCBA]