Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740, British
Title:
The Reverand Dr. John Harris
Date:
1707
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on ivory
Dimensions:
Image: 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (8.3 x 6.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on paper attached to back of ivory: "The Reverend | Dr Harris one of the | prebans of Rochester & | Chapplain of the Lord High | Chancellor of Great Britain | Earle Cowper | Bernard Lens fecit by the | Life 1707"; inscribed on paper attached to frame's backing in pen and brown ink center: "The Rev.d Dr Harris | one of the Prebens of | Rochester | Chaplain to the Lord High | Chancellor of Great Brittain | Earl of Cowper | Author of the Lexicon Technicon | B. Lens ad visum pinxt | 1707"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.2.66
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Daphne Foskett, British portrait miniatures : A history, Spring Books, Feltham, 1968, p. 90, ND1337 .G7 F46 1968 (LC) YCBA

Basil S. Long, British miniaturists, G. Bles, London, 1929, pp. 268-9, ND1337 .G7 L65 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA

Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 22-23, no. 21, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, English portrait miniatures, A. and C. Black, London, 1952, p. 105, ND1337 .G7 R49 (LC) YCBA

Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 32, cat. no. 16, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11618