Study: a woman with flowing hair
Artist
William Hoare
(English, 1707 - 1792)
Date1761-1783
MediumChalk on paper
DimensionsSheet: 3 3/16 × 6 1/8 inches (8.1 × 15.56 cm)
Mat: 6 × 8 3/4 inches (15.24 × 22.23 cm)
Framed: 7 5/8 × 10 3/8 × 7/8 inches (19.37 × 26.35 × 2.22 cm)
Mat: 6 × 8 3/4 inches (15.24 × 22.23 cm)
Framed: 7 5/8 × 10 3/8 × 7/8 inches (19.37 × 26.35 × 2.22 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ambassador Allan Katz and Nancy Cohn
Object number2022.30.2
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DescriptionBlack and red chalk drawing of the head of a female figure, looking down and to her right. Her hair blows in the wind to her right.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 with Windswept Hair,” Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive, PA-F06154-0057, https://photoarchive.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/objects/466310/head-with-windswept-hair?ctx=46fb195d33fd0b17a36989db81179c8ae2055ed8&idx=567.
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