Lady Hamilton Playing a Lyre, c. 1785

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 30.1 x 23.5 cm (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.3.55

Artists / Makers

George Romney (artist) British, 1734 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

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?]

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

Held, Julius S., Professor
Laporte, G.L., Dr.
Weitzner, Julius H.

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.

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.