Mrs. Hugh Hoare: 2315.7

Titles

Mrs. Hugh Hoare

Maker(s)

Description

Laid down on album sheet, surrounded by drawn ink line.

Notes

History note: The artist; Mrs Isabella Chloe Benjamin, the artist's only daughter, sold, 1825; the executors of the late Sir E.F. Coates, Bart, Sale, Sotheby's, 15 February 1922; L.D. Cunliffe

Legal notes

Bequeathed August 1937.

Measurements and weight

Height: 206 mm
Width: 165 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938-02-15) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham

Dating

Production date: AD 1789

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

White bodycolour
Watercolour
Black chalk
Red chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( laid down)

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Black and red chalk, with stump, watercolour and white highlights on paper, laid down (chalk or watercolour applied to verso)

Inscription or legends present

Text: 7.
Location: Album sheet, recto, upper right
Method of creation: Black ink

Inscription present: the word 'two' appearing above the line

Text: Mrs Hugh Hoare 1789 Original. / Wife of the great Banker / I drew two Portraits of her, and her Husband and / his Brother.
Location: Album sheet, recto, lower right
Method of creation: Black ink