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William Hayes, active 1775–1794, British, A Crane, 1791
- Title:
A Crane
- Date:
- 1791
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (43.5 × 33.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Crane"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "D.320"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: "WHayes May | 1791"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5284
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bird
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10366
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Christopher Plumb, The Georgian menagerie : exotic animals in eighteenth-century London, I.B. Tauris, London, 2015, p. 212, fig. 12, QL73.G72 L667 2015 [ORBIS]
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