'[title not known]', Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Artwork details

Artist

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735‑1811)

Title

[title not known]

From Album of Drawings, Mainly by Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Date date not known

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 193 x 146 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

Reference

T10555

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Display caption

Dance-Holland has drawn this figure in a rapid, sketchy manner with a medium-soft graphite pencil. The work is primarily a line drawing with minimal shading. On the back of the sheet there is a dense layer of powdery red chalk. Close inspection of the front reveals fine, silvery lines indented in the paper which follow the outline and some of the details of the figure. These were produced by a metal stylus which was pressed into the paper in order to transfer the image by offsetting red chalk lines onto an underlying piece of paper.

August 2004