Study of a Seated Man Wearing a Helmet
1824/1830
Artist, British, 1809 - 1896

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite on thin laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 33.1 × 21.5 cm (13 1/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.75.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Stephen Ongpin, London); purchased by NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours dating from the 16th Century to the 21st Century. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2017, no. 41 (color).
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Inscriptions
lower center in graphite: The attitude of this figure / is a recollection from nature