drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1936,1116.31.22
- Description
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Study for a portrait of the Hon-Mrs Damer. 1787
Charcoal, touched with black and red chalk
- Production date
- 1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 314 millimetres
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Width: 237 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing is in Volume 6 of the Fourth Series of Downman's 'First Sketches of Portraits of distinguished persons'. For further details see 1936,1116.27.1.
This is one of four studies of 'ladies of quality' all done for full-length portraits for the Duke of Richmond (1926.1116.31.19-22).
Another later portrait of Mrs Damer, while 'modeling' is found in Volume 3 of the Third Series (1967,1014.181.141), and a contemporary one in Volume 1 of the First Series in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Munro, Jane, 'John Downman 1750-1824: Landscape, figure studies and portraits of 'Distinguished persons' (Cambridge 1996), p.81, no2314.9).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- See 1967-10-14-181(1).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,1116.31.22
