Sir William Chambers

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Sir William Chambers
1723-1796
Design for Ceiling Ornament
Pen and black ink, with gray-blue wash and touches of blue watercolor, on paper.
9 7/16 x 11 3/16 inches (240 x 285 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.10:38

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Removed from the Library's album of drawings by Angelica Kauffman, Robert Adam, and James Wyatt.

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Inscribed at lower right in pencil, "from Sir W. Chamber's office...[?]"; inscribed on verso in a modern hand in pencil, "From J.B. Papworth's Coll.", and in an old hand in pen and ink, "Sir William Chambers".

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Wyatt Papworth; Mrs. J.P. Morgan; by descent to her sons, Junius S. and Henry S. Morgan.
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Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894, former owner.
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.

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