A Sheep Resting

c. 1800/1810

James Ward

Artist, British, 1769 - 1859

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with watercolor and green crayon on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14 x 22 cm (5 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)

  • 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


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