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    • Author/Creator:Nixon, John, -1818, artist.
    • Title:[Man playing a horn] [art original].
    • Production:[England], [not after 1818]
    • Physical Description:2 drawings : pen and ink and wash and graphite ; sheet 10.2 x 8 cm, window mounted to 26.4 x 19 cm, matted to 33 x 25 cm
    • Yale Holdings

       
    • Medium:laid paper.
    • Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
      Attributed to John Nixon.
      Date based on artist's death date.
      Numbered "57" in ink on mount, centered above image.
      Purchased from John Underwood Antiquarian Books, December 2019.
    • Summary:Half-length portrait of a man, in profile to the right, playing a horn. On the back, a pencil sketch of the backs of two figures.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Cite as:John Nixon, Man Playing a Horn. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Musicians.
      Musical instruments.
    • Genre/Form:Ink drawings.
      Wash drawings.
      Pencil works.
      Sketches.