Lady Hamilton Playing a Lyre
c. 1785
Artist, British, 1734 - 1802
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 30.1 x 23.5 cm (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1984.3.55
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
G.L. Laporte (Lugt 1170), New York; (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], New York); Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1984 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 12.
1973
One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 41.
1987
English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.
1993
Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1993-1994, no. 2.
Bibliography
1973
Robinson 1973, no. 41.
1979
Master drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held. Exh cat. Burlington, VT, Robert Hull Fleming Museum 1979: 31.
1993
Campbell, Richard J., and Victor Carlson. Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Los Angeles and Minneapolis, 1993: no. 2.
Inscriptions
upper right in brown ink: [the remains of a final "t" from a cut-off inscription, legible when the sheet is turned to the right]; by later hand, across top verso in graphite: [f?] in dark plain oak / Gilt [slip?]
Wikidata ID
Q64571559