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John Downman, 1750–1824, British, Portrait of a Divine Called Reverend John Wesley, ca. 1781
- Title:
Portrait of a Divine Called Reverend John Wesley
- Date:
- ca. 1781
- Medium:
- Black and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.9 x 19 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 9 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (25.1 x 21.9 cm), Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches (22.6 x 19 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back of mount, lower right: "DOWNMAN, JOHN | PORTRAIT OF DIVINE, PERHAPS JOHN WESLEY | LGD 62/6/14/42"; on back of detached border, lower right: "w. LGD 62/6/14/42"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6152
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- chair | coat | collar | interior | man | oval | portrait | profile (figure) | reverend | wig
- Associated People:
- Wesley [Westley], John (1703–1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7831
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Richard P. Heitzenrater, An Exact Likeness: The Portraits of John Wesley, Abingdon Press, Nashville, p. 80, fig. (b), N7628.W46 H45 2016 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
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