SIR DAVID WILKIE (1785-1841)

STUDY FOR MISS JULIA EMILY GORDON
Pen and brown ink on paper
7 x 5 cm
 
 
PROVENANCE
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, British Drawings and Watercolours, 17.11.1992, lot 31 (sold as part of a group lot);
Where acquired by Richard Feigen & Co., New York;
Sold by the estate of Richard Feigen, 2025
 
 
 
 
 
The present work is a study for the finished drawing (in reverse) of Miss Julia Emily Gordon (Tate Gallery, London, acc. no. N01740). Alex Kidson has previously confirmed the attribution and identified the subject. The work will be included in Hamish Miles' forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Wilkie's works.