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'The Discovery', or 'The Ideal Husband' (preparatory drawing for the decorations at Vauxhall Gardens?)
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1708-1776
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1692-1780
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Width: 27 cm
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Exhibition History
Three Exeter artists of the eighteenth century : Francis Hayman, Francis Towne, John White Abbott. Catalogue of loan exhibition by arrangement with the Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 08/05/1951-22/09/1951
Literature
p. 25
Gowing, Lawrence, 'Hogarth, Hayman, and the Vauxhall Decorations' in 'The Burlington Magazine', January 1953 - 4-19; 95, no. 598
p. 16
see attached PDF
Hammelmann, H. A. The Book Collector, 1953. pp. 116-132.
p. 132 ...More
Festival of Britain 1951. Loan Exhibition. Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century. Francis Hayman, R.A., Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, 1951
no. 14 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: "E654". Mount (removed, now missing, attested to in object file): "J. Highmore".
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