TY - JOUR
T1 - Francis Place (1647-1728) and his Collection of Works on Paper
AU - Pierce, Helen
N1 - I should like to extend my thanks to Scott Byrne and his colleagues at Hospitalfield, and to Laura Claveria, Mary-Ann Constantine, Nathan Flis, Michael Hunter, Declan MacDevitt, Niamh MacNally, Simon Turner and Terah Walkup for their advice and assistance in the preparation of this article and in confirming the locations of artworks listed in the drawings notebook.
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Within the modest archive of materials relating to the English artist Francis Place at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, is an eighteenth-century notebook listing a selection of drawings by Place and others, which were inherited by his daughter Frances Wyndham. Although Place’s original and significant collection of prints and drawings is now widely dispersed, the drawings notebook at Hospitalfield, and a corresponding notebook listing intaglio prints, go some way to reconstructing the range of works on paper held in his studio or ‘painting room’ at the King's Manor in York, and aid our understanding of the influences which informed this largely self-taught artist. The details in the drawings notebook, of sketches now lost or in private hands, also develop Place’s known oeuvre in this medium greatly; evidence is provided for a far broader range of subjects, including nude figure studies and Biblical subjects, than has previously been acknowledged.
AB - Within the modest archive of materials relating to the English artist Francis Place at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, is an eighteenth-century notebook listing a selection of drawings by Place and others, which were inherited by his daughter Frances Wyndham. Although Place’s original and significant collection of prints and drawings is now widely dispersed, the drawings notebook at Hospitalfield, and a corresponding notebook listing intaglio prints, go some way to reconstructing the range of works on paper held in his studio or ‘painting room’ at the King's Manor in York, and aid our understanding of the influences which informed this largely self-taught artist. The details in the drawings notebook, of sketches now lost or in private hands, also develop Place’s known oeuvre in this medium greatly; evidence is provided for a far broader range of subjects, including nude figure studies and Biblical subjects, than has previously been acknowledged.
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U2 - 10.1093/jhc/fhaa007
DO - 10.1093/jhc/fhaa007
M3 - Article
VL - 33
SP - 29
EP - 41
JO - Journal of the History of Collections
JF - Journal of the History of Collections
IS - 1
ER -
