DETAILS
- Artist
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Date
- 1745
- Medium
- Black chalk
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000
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