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Attributed to George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Harley as King Artipadiates in "Dr. Bolus". Verso: Figure traced from the recto
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; verso: graphite, rubbed with red chalk.
9 x 6 1/2 inches (228 x 165 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Dudley F. Parker.
1982.13:6
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Watermark: fragment of a coat of arms.
The drawing may have been one of the illustrations for George Daniel's (1789-1864) "Dr. Bolus", a "serio-comick-bombastick-operatick interlude" performed on 21 July 1818 at the English Opera House (afterwards the Lyceum).
Inscription:
Signed(?) at lower right, in graphite, "Cruikshank;" inscribed at upper edge, "Harley as King Artipadiates - in Dr. Bolus -."
Provenance:
Henry C. Sturges (father of the donor, née Sarah Sturges), New York.
Associated names:
Sturges, Henry C. (Henry Cady), 1846-1922, former owner.
Parker, Dudley F., Mrs., former owner.
Daniel, George, 1789-1864. Doctor Bolus.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 252.
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