About the Artwork
A Musical Soirée
ca. 1789
Henry Singleton
1766-1839
English
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on dark buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (28.6 × 47 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.115
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: Cotton Minchin Esq 10368 | The Corner House | Wimbledon Common | 47 Blk Only | Bronze [indecipherable, crossed out] f | Gold Mount 1 1/2" [indecipherable] | just to touch edge of picture | laid to show [indecipherable]
Provenance
by ca. 1896-1900, James George Corton Minchin (Wimbledon, England). Edward Speelman (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Exhibition of English Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries." Typescript checklist, Detroit Institute of Arts, Alger House Branch. Detroit, 1938, p. 4 (as The evening pary by George Romney).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 262, no. 127.
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attributed to Henry Singleton, A Musical Soirée, ca. 1789, pen and brown ink on dark buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.115.
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