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John Aubrey c. 1750-80
Pencil | 17.3 x 14.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 913512

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A pencil drawing of a portrait of John Aubrey with high-necked collar. Oval image. Signed: Robt. Loder fecit.
A copy after a drawing of the antiquary and writer John Aubrey by William Faithorne in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1904.3), dated 1660. The drawing is likely to be an eighteenth century copy, perhaps for an extra illustrated volume.Provenance
Possibly bought by George IV when Prince Regent at Colnaghi, 7 February 1813 (1 1/2 gns, Royal Archives, invoice 27977), 'drawing by Aubrey'
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Pencil
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17.3 x 14.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 13512