Study of the Cossack Teemorfait Carnboloff
Draughtsman: Ward, James, R.A.
History note: Wellesley Collection; Henry Scipio Reitlinger
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 375 mm
Width: 274 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Production date: AD 1814-07
A study for the portrait of 'Platoff's Charger and Four Cossacks' (1815) in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland. An almost identical study, with Christopher Powney in 1968 is additionally inscribed 'It was stated that this man killed / 14 frenchmen one morn.g before breakfast' ('Early Drawings', July 1968 (23)). A full-length study pose of the sitter is in the Ashmolean Museum (see David Blayney Brown, 1982, no. 1859, pl. 521); a highly finished watercolour of the sitter's head and shoulders was on the London Art Market in 1977 (Sotheby's, March 24 1977, lot 154).
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Black chalk on paper
Inscription present: monogram
Accession number: PD.41-1991
Primary reference Number: 14224
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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