unknown artist, eighteenth century, Sir Joshua Reynolds, undated
- Title:
Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Former Title(s):
Study for a Self-Portrait
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Black chalk, red chalk, white chalk on thick, rough, brown wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 x 14in. (40.6 x 35.6cm) and Frame: 18 5/8 × 15 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (47.3 × 39.7 × 2.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in white chalk, top left:"For Sir Joshua Reynolds | from | Given by [...]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6250
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- collar | eyeglasses | portrait | wig
- Associated People:
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15253
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British Drawings and Water-Colours in an American Collection-, Illustrated London News, vol.240,no. 6403, April 21, 1962, p. 627, Available Online: Illus.London News Hist. Archive
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