ANON (Eighteenth-Century) – The Wounded Soldier – Possibly a Portrait of an Actor.
ANON (Eighteenth-Century)
The Wounded Soldier - Possibly a Portrait of an Actor.
Pen, ink and monochrome wash. Inscribed verso, 'From the Loutherbourg sale / Standly / 1015 Garrick as / the wounded / sailor[?] / The Original Drawing'. Engraved by Robert Sawyer (1785-1852) as 'Garrick from an Original Sketch by Hogarth', publ. Colnaghi, 1828. Provenance: Philip James de Loutherbourg R.A. (1740-1812); H. P. Standly; his sale, Christie's 14/4/1845, Lot 1015; […] Capel Cure Sale, Sotheby's 15/5/1905, lot 102 (to James Tregaskis 1850-1926); [...] Professor David Bindman (1940-2025).
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This drawing appears in the appendix of untraced works in Oppé's 'The Drawings of William Hogarth', 1948 (No.114). The basis for its inclusion there is the print Sawyer made after this drawing titled 'Garrick from an Original Sketch by Hogarth' (Publ. 1828). However, Oppé cast some doubt on Sawyer's identification describing the pen work (which he knew only from the print) as 'altogether too finicky to be Hogarth'. If there had been a mistake of authorship it had happened early on, presumably after the drawing left the collection of de Loutherbourg, whose pen work the present sheet does bear some resemblance to ...
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This work appears in the Group:
British Works on Paper 2026 (Incl. David Bindman Collection)