A Sheep Resting
c. 1800/1810
Artist, British, 1769 - 1859

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with watercolor and green crayon on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1995.52.190
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Bury Street Gallery [William Drummond], London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1985-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 42.
1996
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.
Bibliography
1993
NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 42.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: JWD.RA. (signature by Ward probably added later); by later hand, center verso in graphite: 1 1/2 - / 2 / 2 1/4; by later hand, center right verso in pen and black ink: 989; by later hand, lower center verso in grap
Wikidata ID
Q64580733