Brown wash with brown pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, laid in contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (44.2 x 52 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, on mount, lower left: "T. UWINS."; on mount, lower center: "Gil Blas while practicing medicine under Dr. Sangrado | encounters Dr Cuchillo at the bedside of the Grocer"; on mount, lower right: ""Le petit médecin me dit en souriant d'un air plein de malice: | vous croyez que ces remédes lui sauveront la vie?" | Gil Blas"; in graphite, on mount, lower right: "100"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4336
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
cane | eyeglasses | curtains | drapery | chairs | bed | coats | dress | cloaks | bedroom | canopy | women | men | science | medicine | interior | illness | gesture | satire | humor | physicians | literary theme | death | L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-1735) | picaresque novel
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)