Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on laid paper
Depiction: Fat man in chair drinks from jug.
Inscribed in pencil, upper left: "Drinking water is [illegible] for a fever".
Watermark [partial]: "Pro Patria".
Unsigned.
Richardson's parents lived in Richmond in the 1760's and his brother and sister were born there (See Payne & Payne 2010 p 11 and he made at least one visit in the 1780s (op cit p 100). The title on this small sketch may provide a clue to a lower righter drawing.
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A41
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