Nine studies of hands: PD.166-1963.f.10

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Titles

Nine studies of hands

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Description

From left to right, top to bottom: back of right hand, veins prominent; left hand with thumb and first two fingers gripping; right hand with palm uppermost; cuff with left hand holding corner of a book; left hand and wrist with thumb turned down; left and right hand holding a ball and clenched around an object; right hand bent at wrist with back of hand turned down; right hand gripping corner of a book.

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

Black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper Height 210 mm Width 171 mm
Leaf Height 397 mm Width 301 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and black ink over traces of graphite surrounded by ruled black ink line, on laid paper, stuck to album leaf which has been cut in order to show the verso of the support