drawing
- Museum number
- 1897,0813.9.113
- Description
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One of the drawings connected with 'THE ART OF DEFENCE', A fencing scene; the man on the right, transfixing his opponent, l, who has attempted unsuccessfully to parry the former's lunge in cart
Black chalk on blue-grey paper
Verso: A fencing scene; the man on the right, on guard, the man on the left, drawing his sword, a wig lying between them on the ground, and a hat on the right
Black chalk on blue-grey paper
- Production date
- 1648-1702
- Dimensions
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Height: 276 millimetres
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Width: 451 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1874,0808.2262
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.13
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Acquisition notes
- The provenance of these and other drawings that descended through the Wray family has been modified by research since the publication of ECM 1960. The wills of Edward Byng and his sister Elizabeth show that she inherited a life interest in the artist's estate and that it was then divided between her sons William Wray, Robert Bateman Wray and Charles Wray. The subsequent descent through the family is not certain, but it seems that the drawings now in the BM descended from Robert Bateman Wray to his great-granddaughter, Margaret Wray, who gave them to Cecil Wray Byng Wilkins.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0813.9.113
