Artist John Hoppner, English, 1758-1810
Title
  • A Lady Seated in a Chair
Date between 1790 and 1792
Medium black, red, and white chalk on tan laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (44.1 × 28.9 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
Accession Number 34.114.A
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in red chalk, verso, upper left, in two distinct hands: Phoebe Hoppner
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: E.2798 [in circle]
(E. Parsons and Sons, London, England);
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 248-249, no. 118, p. 158 (pl. xxx).