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Raphael Lamar West
1769-1850
Man Peering Over a Rock
Black chalk, with pen and brown-black ink, on paper.
11 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (283 x 197 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.
1970.11:129
Notes:
Watermark: letter W [Whatman].
The figure in this drawing, which appears to have only one eye, may represent the Cyclops, Polyphemus.
Provenance:
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.
Associated names:
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. 234.
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