A High-flyer Phaeton (Primary Title)

Benjamin Ralph, English, active 1763 - 1775 (Artist)

18th century
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
pen and ink on wove paper
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 19 9/16 in. (20.64 × 49.69 cm)
Mount: 12 1/2 × 22 1/4 in. (31.75 × 56.52 cm)
Mat: 19 × 25 in. (48.26 × 63.5 cm)
85.1240
Not on view
Signed and inscribed in ink lower right: B Ralph ___ (illegible)/ __ 73rd Regt
Stamped on verso: PAUL MELLON COLLECTION
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "17 (circled)/ D1563/ Benjamin Ralph __(?) 1763-1775/ LGD/ Ralph was one of the officers of the Incorporated/ Society of Artists in 1769 - see W.T. Whitley/ "Artists & their Friends in England", Vol I Ca XIV/ But this is possibly by a son, as the dress suggests/ a date around 1790 and the inscription is "__(?) 73rd Regt.""
Paul Mellon Collection
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