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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal)
Lot 1034 OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JERROLD AND JACKIE ZIFF (LOTS 983-1062)

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

The infant Shakespeare; and A young girl, two pages from a sketchbook

Closed3 October 2007

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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal)
The infant Shakespeare; and A young girl, two pages from a sketchbook
the second numbered '37'
pen and brown ink on paper with fragmentary watermark
4 3/8 x 7¼ in. (111 x 186 mm.); 4 3/8 x 7¼ in. (111 x 182 mm.) (2)

De Pass Collection, Royal Institute of Cornwall, Truro; Christie's, London, 22 February 1966, lot 24 (part of an album of sketches and notes).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1970, lot 89 (as A figure study: study for the infant Shakespeare nursed by Comedy and Tragedy), where acquired by the current owner.

Specialist note

Both sheets were part of a sketchbook dated 1783. The first drawing is related to two painted versions of the same subject, one formerly in the collection of Mr. Tankerville Chamberlayne, the other at Petworth House (see A. Chamberlain, George Romney, London, 1910, pl. XVII for an illustration of the first). Chamberlain also notes a black chalk cartoon of the composition in the Liverpool Royal Institution (op. cit., pl. LXX), and a preparatory drawing at Cambridge (op. cit, p. 362).