Drawings & Watercolours
Female Nude, Seated, Three Quarter View from Front
Drawing
Details
- Author / creator
- William Mulready (British, 1786–1863)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- 1859
- Dimensions summary
- Sheet: 49.2 × 34.1 cm
- Place of origin
- England
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Public appeal (1998), 1978
- Paper / support
- Laid paper
About this object
For William Mulready, drawing was a lifelong preoccupation. This sheet was drawn from a model in the Royal Academy’s life school when the artist was 73. He was one of the academy’s most devoted teachers, positioning the model for his students and then drawing alongside them. Closely observed and meticulously crafted, the work attests to Mulready’s consummate skill as a draftsman.
Materials and technique
Black and red crayon
Signature and marks
inscribed, in red chalk (rubbed), at lower right: RA [?/?] 1859 / WM
