Black chalk and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 5/8 × 14 1/8 inches (55 × 35.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2012.25
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
costume | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Gallery Label:
In 1793, Sir Francis Burdett married Sophia Coutts and commissioned full-length portraits in oil of himself and his new wife. Burdett had recently returned from a Grand Tour and had been in Paris in the early days of the French Revolution. In Britain he was soon elected to Parliament and established himself as a political reformer. This highly finished drawing was made by Lawrence as a study for the finished oil painting now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)