Joseph Windham, FSA (1739-1810)
George Dance the Younger, RA (London 1741 - London 1825)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1741 - circa 1825
Materials
Black chalk strengthened with brown ink on paper
Measurements
207 x 170 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1396295
Summary
A black chalk drawing, strengthened with brown ink on paper, of Joseph Windham, FSA (1739-1810), by George Dance the Younger RA (London 1741 – London 1825). It is signed, and inscribed with the identity of the sitter, but the date of death is incorrectly stated on the inscription. Joseph Windham FSA oOf Ersham, was the son of John Windham (1709-1780) and Mary (1717-1789). He was a classical scholar and antiquary. He published only one work under his own name, but wrote significant contributions to the works of others, including Charles Cameron's Baths of the Romans (1772); the second volume of James Stuart's Antiquities of Athens (1787 [1789]) and the Society of Dilettanti's Antiquities of Ionia (1797).
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
George Dance the Younger, RA (London 1741 - London 1825), artist