Graphite on slightly textured, medium, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 9/16 × 8 7/8 inches (9 × 22.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and gray ink, lower center: "Herstmonceaux"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "Note: This is a very careful, though much reduced, | copy of the large water-color by Lambert | executed in 1777 immediately before the des- | truction, in my unique set of his drawings"; in graphite, lower right: "From the Coll.n of WHB Fletcher [...] | Aldwich Manor (fomerly Bersted [...] | Bo[...]"; in graphite, upper center: "Herstmonceaux | by J.L. Lewes"; in graphite, center: "10/6"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection