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Drawing, Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh
This is a Drawing. It was created by Hubert-François Gravelot. It is dated 1737–39 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite, charcoal, red chalk on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
Its dimensions are
37.2 × 22.8 cm (14 5/8 × 9 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, lower right: H. Gravelot inv. & delin.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite [in the hand of Jacobus Houbraken], within upper portion of frame: . . “als t niet te veel maeyten / is, had ik liever ‘t oval wat kleynder / gelyk met potlood, aangewezen, heb”
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh; Hubert-François Gravelot (French, active England, 1699 - 1773); France; pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite, charcoal, red chalk on paper; 37.2 × 22.8 cm (14 5/8 × 9 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-164