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• Author/Creator:West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
  
• Title:Gray's Bard [art original] / BW.
  
• Published/Created:[England], [not before 1820]
  
• Physical Description:1 drawing : pen and sepia ink wash ; sheet 21.6 x15 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Drawings W516 no. 1 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 6
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Catalog of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library: no. 119. For further information, consult library staff.
    
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• Medium:8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches.
  
• Notes:Title inscribed by artist on verso: Gray's Bard.
  Signed by the artist in lower right: BW.
  Signed by the artist on the verso: Benjm. West.
  Purchased from Sotheby's 23 November 1966, lot 249 to Agnew for W.S. Lewis.
  Exhibited: Yale University. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, September-December 1981.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Benjamin West (1738-1820) was a British portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Academy in ...
  
• Variant and related titles:In-house title: Bard
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Cite as:Benjamin West, Gray's Bard. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Bard--Illustrations.
  
• Genre/Form:Wash drawings--British--18th century.
  Wash drawings--British--19th century.