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Raphael Lamar West
1769-1850
View of Honeyoye Lake
Pen and brown ink, on paper.
3 5/8 x 6 13/16 inches (93 x 173 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.
1970.11:82
Inscription:
Inscribed by the artist in brown ink above the design, "A view of the head on Inlet of Honeyoye Lake - the diversity of tint on / these hills is Beauutifull. The land at the / other end of the lake if of the Best quality / & purfectly Flat for miles". Inscribed on verso by the artist in brown ink along upper margin, "I traced those I sent to England for my Father / May 8th ["th" in superscript] 1799".
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. 239, repr.
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