Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bound in carta fiorentina
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.2 x 16.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite inside front cover: "-23 pages with drawings | -1 loose drawing"; in pen and black ink: "These Sketches | executed by Patch | at Florence 1770"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Grand Tour (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1998-01-10 - 1998-04-10)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
John Marciari, The Grand Tour : an exhibition held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 15 January through 31 March MCMCVIII, Yale University Library, New Haven, 1998, p. 22, N8214.5 .I8 M27 1998 + Oversize (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 41-2, no. 44, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Important eighteenth and nineteenth century English drawings and watercolours : 21 March 1974, Sotheby's, March 21, 1974, pp. 46-7, lot 44, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 126, 128, 129, no. 107, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)