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Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
Barnard or Barney Smith, the Duke's stud-groom c. 1770 - c. 1780
Pencil and watercolour | 7.9 x 19.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 914352
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A pencil and watercolour drawing of a male figure lunging a thoroughbred colt. Faint figures of horses and riders in background. Mounted together with RCINs 914348-914353. Inscribed below on the modern mount, 'Barnard Smith, the Duke's stud groom'. Both figures, as well as those of RCIN 914351, appear in a watercolour of Cumberland Lodge (RCIN 914628).
Provenance
From a volume of figure studies at the Paul Sandby estate sale, 16-18 April 1817, lot 44; bought by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland; bought for the Royal Library from Sir Francis Dyke Acland in 1930 (the whole volume £30)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
7.9 x 19.8 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 14352
