Randolph Caldecott

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Randolph Caldecott
1846-1886
Young Woman Looking at a Statue in a Church
Pen and black ink on paper.
7 x 4 3/8 inches (178 x 112 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2267:29
Notes: 

One of a group of 35 travel drawings, sketches, and studies evidently done by Caldecott during a tour or tours of the continent and elsewhere.
Title supplied by cataloger; attribution from Gordon Ray inventory.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Drawing of a church interior showing a statue of a cardinal (?) saint standing on a pedestal, holding an archiepiscopal cross and wearing a wide brimmed pontifical hat; a young woman, fashionably dressed and portrayed from the back, gazes up at it from below.

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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