Inscription: Partially effaced inscription at lower right in graphite: "[erased word] Drawing/ by Angelica Kauffman/ of Lady Hamilton/ sometime aft. 1792" On mat, lower right corner, in graphite: "E/4 76" Verso of mat, lower right corner, in red crayon: "115" Right center, in graphite: "Missal Hall/ 10 Mitchel Place/ Manhattan./ (19-96/ >446-41" Lower left corner, in graphite and violet ink: "D/47" [inscribed in a violet circle; dividing line is straight] Lower right corner, in graphite: 239/1 [dividing line is straight]; in graphite and violet ink "D/47 x13" [D/47 inscribed in a violet circle; dividing line is straight]

Marking: No visible watermark (drawing laid down on mat)

John, Lord Northwick (British, 1769–1859)(and by descent); Sotheby's, London, November 1–4, 1920, lot 382Price noted in ink, MMA copy in Watson.; W. H. Stephenson(bought Sotheby's, Nov. 4, 1920)Purchase of work noted in Manners and Williamson, 1942, p. 210. MMA Sotheby's sale cata. Nov. 4, 1920 (382) has marginal note in ink, recording Stephenson as the purchaser.; Christie's, New York, January 22, 2003 (lot 94); Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

Peter Walch Angelica Kauffmann. PhD diss., 1968 fig. no. 119, 119a, p. 360, ill.

Lady Victoria Manners, George Charles Williamson Angelica Kauffmann. Her Life and her works. New York, 1974, pp. 86/7, 161, 1.