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- Title:
The Use of Tears
- Additional Title(s):
Le Billet Doux
- Date:
- 1827
- Medium:
- Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on thick, smooth card
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 x 7 inches (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower center: "R. P. Bonington del. 1827"
Collector's mark:"Coutan Hauguet Schubent Miouet Collection"
Signed in pen and brown ink lower center: "R. P. Bonington del. 1827"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.18
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bed | cat (domestic cat) | chair | genre subject | letter | tears | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4966
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