Sawrey Gilpin R.A. 1733-1807 English School 18th.Century. Study of a running hare, pencil on laid paper. Signed to reverse Sawry Gilpin 1780. 15 by 9.2 cms. Image. Laid at edges to backing sheet. Provenance: Ex. Iolo Williams Collection.
Gilpin was a successful 18th.Century English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses, dogs and wildlife.
Iolo Williams 1890-1962 leading scholar of British Watercolour drawing. Author of "Early English Water-Colours, and some Cognate Drawings by Artist's Born Not Later Than 1785" the seminal work on the subject.