John Frederick Lewis

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John Frederick Lewis
1805-1876
Spanish Battle Scene: The Proclamation of Don Carlos
Watercolor, with tempera, over pencil, on wove paper, mounted to pasteboard.
17 15/16 x 22 3/16 inches (455 x 562 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1977.31

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Watermark: none visible through pasteboard mount.

Inscription: 

Inscribed in pencil on back at lower center, "Exhibited at Glasgow East-End Industrial Exhibition 1903-04 / Then in the collection of Mrs. Keyden"; at lower right, "Proclamation of Don Carlos".

Provenance: 
Mrs. Keyden (according to inscription on back of pasteboard mount); Stephen Spector.
Associated names: 

Keyden, Mrs., former owner.
Spector, Stephen, 1946-, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 273.

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