Benjamin West

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Benjamin West
1738-1820
The Rider on the White Horse. Verso: Compositional sketch
Black and white chalk, on blue-gray paper; verso: black chalk.
9 1/4 x 7 inches (235 x 178 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.
1970.11:171

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Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Study for the "Destruction of the Beast and the False Profit," 1804, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The drawing is an illustration of Revelation, XIX, 11 and 20.

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Estate of the artist; by descent; Harry Margary, the great-grandson of Maria West (daughter of Raphael Lamar West, and granddaughter of Benjamin West); Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London; from whom purchased 60 drawings, 17 June 1964, and 197 drawings, 15 February 1965, by M. Knoedler and Co., Inc.; from whom purchased 257 drawings by the Morgan Library in 1970.
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Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.

Bibliography: 

Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 70, repr.

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