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Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British, Disproportioned Horse Drawing, ca. 1760
- Title:
- Disproportioned Horse Drawing
- Date:
- ca. 1760
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 3/16 × 13 3/8 inches (20.8 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "This outline is taken from one by a painer, who was intimately ignorant of the forms of a | horse. When analysed, you discern how totally the weak, shoulder, & all the other parts of it, are | disproportioned."; inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: "S Gilpin"
Watermark: "GR"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1998.32.6(7)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23815
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