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http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object
Human-Made Object
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drawing
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portrait
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Drawing & Watercolor
Richard Cooper the Elder
Portrait of Richard Cooper, Sr. (d.1764)
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1987.4
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109969765
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
10 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (26 x 21.3 cm)
width
cm
21.3
height
cm
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Sheet
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production
John Donaldson, 1737–1801, British
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6229729
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500021764
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85198960
https://viaf.org/viaf/74211104
https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k072n3
John Donaldson
Donaldson John, 1737–1801
John Donaldson, 1737–1801
John Donaldson, 1737–1801
British
1737
1801
male
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Artist
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British
undated
1752
1801
22
18th century
Graphite on vellum
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graphite
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vellum
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
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exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
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Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
2750
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
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publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 20, no. 5, , NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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Forrester Gillian
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Author
Morna O'Neill
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O'Neill Morna
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Author
Kim Sloan
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Sloan Kim
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2001
2001
2001
New Haven, CT
2750
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
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Owner
1987
1987
1987
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purchase
John Donaldson's portrait of the Endinburgh engraver Richard Cooper (d. 1764) is if the kind of monochrome miniature drawing first introduced to England from the Continent in the seventeenth century. The graphite drawing on vellum, or plumbago, as it became known, was developed as a cheaper alternative to the miniature and could also be used readily as a model for engraving. The plumbago was popular throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and as Donaldson's miniature shows, this rather austere form of drawing was capable of considerable refinement and tonal subtlety in the hands of a skilled practitioner. Jonathan Richardson's portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (cat. 1) is another example of this genre, though the drawing is less highly finished than Donaldson's.
The little-known miniaturist John Donaldson was born in Edinburgh; he showed early promise and, after being awarded premiums by the Edinburgh Society of Arts in 1757 and 1758, moved to London to develop his career. Donaldson exhibited portrait miniatures of Richard Cooper in London at the Free Society and the Society of Artists in 1762 and 1764, and cat. 5 may have been exhibited on one or both occasions. The drawing presumably was made in Edinburgh before Donaldson's departure for London. Cooper, who studied art in Italy in his youth and was an accomplished draftsman, is depicted, pencil in hand, pausing in the act of making a figure study rather than in his professional capacity as an engraver.\n\n
Gillian Forrester\n\n
Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 20 cat. no. 5
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Published catalog entry
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Gillian Forrester
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books
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portrait
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 20, no. 5, , NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
related to
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500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Public Domain
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
2750
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Volume
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2750
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https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/2750
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art