Six studies of hands: PD.166-1963.f.94

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Titles

Six studies of hands

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Description

Clockwise from upper left: pair of hands, left resting on a surface, right writing with a quill pen (graphite with white highlights); right hand and wrist, hand clasped, with graphite sketch of right arm behind resting against a pole behind (graphite with white highlights); right hand and wrist, writing with a quill pen, palm visible, slight graphite sketch of same (pen and brown ink, white highlights and graphite); pair of hands, left hand holding right wrist, right hand writing with a quill pen (graphite, brown wash and white highlights); pair of hands, from left, left hand held out as if acting as a brace, the right holding a strip of ?material between thumb and first two fingers (graphite and white highlights); pair of hands holding a book, left hand keeping place, right hand supporting book (pen and brown ink with graphite and brown wash).

Notes

History note: Thomas Dawson, Baron Dartrey (1725-1813) [Bookplate]; ?Richard Thomas Dawson; William Esdaile; C. Fairfax Murray, sold Sotheby's, 2-3 December 1920, lot 156, bt. Reader; / Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 30 April 1937, lot 22, bt. Colnaghi for Sir Bruce Ingram (£90.0.0)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir

School or Style

Dutch

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown wash
White bodycolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper Height 185 mm Width 149 mm
Leaf Height 397 mm Width 301 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over graphite with white highlights surrounded by ruled ink line on laid paper, stuck to album leaf which has been cut to show the verso of the support