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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Lot 34

George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)

John Howard visiting a Lazaretto

Closed10 July 2012

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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
John Howard visiting a Lazaretto
pencil on paper
5½ x 9 in. (14 x 22/9 cm.)

Louis Meier, 23 Cecil Court, London, circa 1960.
with Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 11.

Specialist note

The present drawing relates to others depicting the same subject in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; the Courtauld Institute of Art; and a private collection in the United States. It is distinguished by the inclusion of a muscular Michelangelesque figure in the centre of the composition, a character not present in any of the other large-scale drawings.