Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45), Design for a Medal: Boths Hand Fil'd for Britain, between 1734 and 1736
- Title:
Design for a Medal: Boths Hand Fil'd for Britain
- Date:
- between 1734 and 1736
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink, pen and red ink, graphite with red chalk, squared for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, and pen, with black and red ink border lines
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 11 x 7 5/8 inches (27.9 x 19.4 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 4 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (10.5 × 10.5 cm), and Sheet: 2 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (6 × 13.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with black ink, over graphite, upper left and right of circular image: "BOTH HANDS FIL'D FOR BRITAIN"; on mount, in graphite, upper right: "67707 D. Mellon; Verso: inscribed in graphite, upper right: "68/12/20/60"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.442
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- design | emblem (allegorical picture) | female | figure (illustration) | genre subject | goddess | medal | spear
- Associated People:
- Minerva
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9933
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Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 236, fig. 13.06, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA)
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