Sir David Wilkie United Kingdom 1785 - 1841 Sold
Study of seated female figures for The Village Politicians
1806
Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 24.50 cm x 32.50 cm
Diameter: 0.00 cms
Inscribed in a later hand Drawn by D. Wilkie the first idea of his first picture of the Village Politician and inscribed and dated London 1806 (on verso)

The Village Politicians was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806, number 145. The present drawing represents an early and tentative compositional study for the finished painting, which is in the collection of the Earl of Mansfield at Scone Palace.

Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (second exhibition) Peter Nahum Ltd.
March 1985 April 1985