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Creator:
Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Title:

Portrait of an Armenian [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]

Former Title(s):

A portrait of an Armenian [1771, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Date:
1771
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 3/8 × 28 inches (92.4 × 71.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Label on verso, upper center, handwritten: "204"

Signed in black paint, lower left: "R. Cosway | RA"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.7
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
Armenian | cloth | clouds | costume | deserts | figure study | fringe | horse (animal) | horses (animals) | landscape | man | patterns (design elements) | pendant | robe | spear | turban
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:113
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 70-71, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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