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DRAWINGS
Lent by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
COPLEY, John Singleton, 1737-1815
(See also page 80.)
24. Study for a Figure.
Black and white chalk on blue paper, squared with sanguine.
14" by 11V2". Copley catalog, Boston Museum, February
1938, no. 117.
ST. MEMIN, Charles Balthazar Julian Fevret de, 1770-1852
Born and died in Dijon, France. At the outbreak of the French
Revolution St. Memin went to Switzerland, then to Canada and
New York. In this country he introduced portraits executed
with the aid of the "Physionotrace" which was supposed to exactly
reproduce a profile in miniature. With this device St.
Memin would make a profile drawing and from the drawing a
plate for a set of prints of each sitter.
25. Col. John Quarles.
Black and white chalk on pink prepared paper. 21Vi" by 15Vi".
From the collection of John Quarles.
WEST, Benjamin, 1728-1820
(See also page 80.)
26. The Shipwreck of St. Paul.
Signed, left center, and dated 1785. Pencil, pen and bistre and
yellow-brown wash. 16Ys" by lOVs".
A design for a larger picture which was painted for the Chapel
in Greenwich Hospital.
27. The Combat between Hector and Diomede Prevented by the
Lightning of Jupiter, Iliad, Book VIII.
Signed, lower right, and dated 1788. Pen and brown ink. 10Ys"
by 15 15/16".
28. A Mother and Child.
Signed in ink, lower right, and dated 1783. Pen and bistre and
wash with a little light blue water color above the child's head.
7" by 4 13/16".
Study from nature.
29. Leave-Taking of a Warrior.
Yellow-brown brush and wash, heightened with lead white. 7 5 A"
by 11".
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