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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/85 |
Former Reference | D5459/1/14 |
Title | [Young man with a walking stick] |
Date | [1790-1799] |
Description | Portrait of a young man, walking left to right, wearing buckled shoes, tattered breeches, a blue coat and what appears to be a bicorn hat with cockade. He has his eyes closed and his carrying a large stick under his right arm. Available on CD 158. |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
Further Information | The drawing was the basis for the engraving of a 'Buck' in the series 'Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood' (BM Sat 7787, published by Holland in 1790). In the print he is wearing a round hat and carrying a smaller stick. |
Physical Description | Coloured drawing. Size 298 x 230 mm. Portrait. |
Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
Related Material | See D5459/1/15/6 for the drawing titled 'A Buck'. |
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