Monument to William Chancellor Cowper, 1732

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper; partially pricked for transfer

Dimensions

overall: 62.3 x 44.3 cm (24 1/2 x 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

Accession Number

1996.128.17

Artists / Makers

Domenico Maria Fratta (artist) Italian, 1696 - 1763

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in pen and brown ink: Domenico Ma. Fratta Bon. Anno Dom. 1732; by later hand, center verso in graphite: N 1; by later hand, lower right verso in pen and brown ink: No 37

Provenance

(possibly sale, Paris, 6 December 1943, Vente X (see Bénézit)); Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Humann Foundation, Christian, The
Humann, Christian

Bibliography

1999: Van Houtven, Andrea. "Two Drawings by Domenico Maria Fratta for McSwiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes.'" Master Drawings, 37, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 47-49, 51-52, and notes 1, 15, fig. 1.