Pencil drawing
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
255 mm (H)252 mm (H)187 mm (W)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872969
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); in a geometrical form, formed by two parallel quarters of a circle; a man sitting on a bench, the upper part of his body frontal, his face in profile to the right, holding up his right hand behind his right shoulder, holding with his left hand the right leg on the left knee, turned to the left side of the drawing; behind the figure the heads of a woman and a kid.
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 Martino Rota (Sebenico, Dalmatia c.1520 – Prague1583), engraver (printmaker)