A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio

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1779

Prince Hoare
British, 1755-1834

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Prince Hoare
Title: A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio
Place: Great Britain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1779
Medium: Brush and black ink wash, with pen and black ink and opaque white and gray watercolor, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, verso: "22"
Dimensions: 38 × 56.5 cm (15 × 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.3179
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Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., Night Thoughts: Romantic Drawings from the Brandt Collection (London: Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., 2023), pp. 24–27 (ill.).

Sold by Roland, Browse, & Delbanco, London, to Leonard G. Duke, 1949; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 5, 1970, lot 100, to Walter A. Brandt (1902–1978); by descent, to 2023 [all provenance is according to Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, 2023]; sold through Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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