Study of a Horse (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

ca. 1800
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
graphite on blue laid paper
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 4 15/16 in. (19.53 × 12.54 cm)
Mount: 19 × 12 1/2 in. (48.26 × 31.75 cm)
85.948
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite on mount lower center and lower right: M 28. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount: "64/ 9/ 12/ 20", "(previously Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., Attr. to/ study of Horse's Head)", "English School, (previously attr. to Thomas Gainsborough)/ Study of a Horse, c. 1800: head and neck,/ profile, looking right" and "PM- Mellon 28"
Paul Mellon Collection
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