Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Lot 83

GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)

John Howard visiting a Lazaretto; and Study of a head of a bearded man, in profile

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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
John Howard visiting a Lazaretto; and Study of a head of a bearded man, in profile
the second with inscription 'Sketch for/ Head of Our Saviour/ - Engraved - Hayley's Life' (upper right)
both pencil
5 5⁄8 x 9 1⁄8 in. (14.3 x 23.2 cm.); 4 1⁄2 x 6 5⁄8 in. (11.4 x 16.8 cm.)
(2)

both Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 March 1986, lot 78 (part).

Specialist note

Whilst the second of these drawings has previously been identified as the head of Christ engraved in Hayley's Life of Romney, it is quite different from that engraving and stylistically appears to be earlier in Romney's career. It was perhaps intended to be a head of King Lear, or could come from an antique source.
We are grateful to Alex Kidson for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.