A pen and ink and watercolour drawing of a male figure, seated in a chair with a striped covering, reading a book. Inscribed below on the modern mount, probably copied from an earlier one, 'David Morier, the Artist'. On the verso of this mount, inscribed in pencil in a later hand: 'Morier the Painter, lived in the service of Wm Duke of Cumberland and painted the military costumes of the Allied Army put up in the [?] compartments of a room at Cranbourne Lodge and was famous for painting horses'. The artist David Morier (1701/2-1770) was employed by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and was well-known to the Sandby brothers. Stylistically the drawing is among several of Sandby's friends that were made at an evening sketching class at 36 Poulteney Street in 1753 (E.H. Ramsden ('The Sandby brothers in London', Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXXIX, p. 17). The same striped upholstery appears in RCINs 914399 and 914418. Oppé has suggested that by this date, Morier was too old for the sitter in this drawing.