Pencil drawing
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Chalk, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
131 mm (H)124 mm (H)305 mm (W)303 mm (W)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872923
Summary
Pencil drawings on tracing paper with red chalk crayon, partly underlaid by red chalk (ornamental drawings); some ornamental forms, some mythological scenes, probably taken from grotesquesqueries displayed loosely on the sheet; a boy with an arrow going to the left; a carriage with a standing male nude with a veil, pulled by two centaurs; a putto playing a flute riding on a big fish; a putto playing with an eagle; a winged head of the Medusa, with snakes, in a wreath of flowers; a long Rocaille-form; two forms of snakes and/or dragon tails, a putto riding backwards on a centaur, playing the flute.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley.
Marks and inscriptions
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Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist