A Lock

Sir David Wilkie

Artist, Scottish, 1785 - 1841

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black-brown ink with gray wash on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 6 x 2.8 cm (2 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.208

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. N.C. Butler; (Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1968-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Mrs. N.C. Butler was a descendant of a friend of the artist's (according to O'Neal records).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Master Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1971-1972.

1975

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Virginia Museum Downtown Gallery, F&M Center, Charlottesville, 1975: no. 29.

Bibliography

1975

  • "Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2.

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, checklist 249 (Ewer), 253 (Lock), 254 (Lock).

Wikidata ID

Q64631817

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