Artist
Charles D'Oyly(British, 1781–1845)British, 1781–1845
CultureBritish
Titles
- Self-Portrait or The consequence of not having drawn for 6 months
Date1830s
MediumWatercolor with scraping and gum glaze over graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 6 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (16.2 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.486
Non exposé
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Department
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Exhibition History"The Other Side of the Verandah: Watercolours, drawings, and photographs of Anglo-Indian interiors in the British period, 1800 to 1900," Eyre & Hobhouse, London, December 1981.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed, upper left: Can't draw / All failures -- / Trees like Cabbages!
Recto: Inscribed, right center: What's the matter?
Recto: Inscribed, center bottom edge: The consequence of not having drawn for 6 months
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Inscribed, right center: What's the matter?
Recto: Inscribed, center bottom edge: The consequence of not having drawn for 6 months
Verso: [inaccessible]
Watermark: Partial, left of sheet: possibly WHATMAN with a countermark [sheet needs to be unhinged for further investigation]
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