About the Artwork
A. Gustavius, Diamond Merchant from Sweden
1778
Ozias Humphrey
1742-1810
English
Unknown
Graphite pencil and black, red, and white chalk on tan laid paper
Sheet: 17 × 13 1/4 inches (43.2 × 33.7 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
65.352
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center of thin cardboard backing: A: Gustavus - Diamond Merchant | from Sweden - | O: H: d+ 1178- Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, recto, lower left: N° 75 | G. Romrey 1778 Inscribed, lower center: From the collection of A Gustavus [?] 1778. see Back of Drawing Inscribed, in pencil just above: See Back, study Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right: P.75 [by William Esdaile (?)] Inscribed, In pen and grey-black ink, verso, center of thin cardboard backing: I was informed by Mr. Campbell Dodgson | of the Ozias Humphry: this was confirmed | by Dr. G. C. Williamson on the same day. who | states the handwriting below, with the | exception of the words " Collection of" | to be that of the Artist. | Albert Ehrman. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, preceeding inscription: Collection of
Stamp, in brown, lower right: W. Esdaile (Lugt 2617) Stamp, in blue ink, verso, center: Ehrman (Lugt Suppl. 111a)
Provenance
William Esdaile (London, England)
by 1923, Albert Ehrman (Beaulieu, Hampshire, England)
Christopher Powney (London, England)
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 250-251, no. 119, p. 159 (pl. xxxi).
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Ozias Humphrey, A. Gustavius, Diamond Merchant from Sweden, 1778, graphite pencil and black, red, and white chalk on tan laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 65.352.
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