Female profile
Alternate TitleAlternate titles: Head After Raphael
Artist
William Hoare
(English, 1707 - 1792)
Date1761-1783
MediumChalk on paper
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 6 5/16 inches (19.69 × 16.03 cm)
Mat: 14 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (36.83 × 27.62 cm)
Framed: 17 1/8 × 13 3/8 × 1 inches (43.5 × 33.97 × 2.54 cm)
Mat: 14 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (36.83 × 27.62 cm)
Framed: 17 1/8 × 13 3/8 × 1 inches (43.5 × 33.97 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ambassador Allan Katz and Nancy Cohn
Object number2022.30.1
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DescriptionBlack and red chalk drawing of a female figure in profile, facing to her right. She has a long, straight nose, slightly parted lips, and her hair is done up with a headband.Exhibition HistoryArt Treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester, UK, May 5–October 17, 1857.
“Will of Prince Hoare of Abercorn Place Edgeware Road Middlesex, 25 February 1835,” PROB 11/1842/401, The National Archives, Kew.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolours (London: Sotheby’s, November 11, 1993), 16, as An Album of Portrait Drawings and Classical Studies.
“William Hoare, Head After Raphael,” Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive, PA-F06154-0165, https://photoarchive.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/objects/455662/head-after-raphael?ctx=61e7882d3b1733b75815c959645c128328ad642f&idx=621.
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