Soldier in a landscape with a building to right: PD.166-1963.f.76

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Soldier in a landscape with a building to right

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Description

Full-length study of standing pikeman wearing a plumed hat, torso armour, a sword, and various equipment on his back, facing to right, looking over right shoulder. Holds a pike in left hand, and a skillet in his right. High gabled building to right.

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 chalk
Black carbon ink
Brown ink
Brown wash
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper Height 214 mm Width 172 mm
Leaf Height 397 mm Width 301 mm
Verso

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite surrounded by a brown ink line on laid paper, stuck to an album leaf which is inlaid and shows the verso of the support, which has been covered with black chalk and appears to bear a maculature.