Samuel Smith, Studies of ears, by ca. 1840.
Monochrome (grey/black) watercolour on cream wove paper. 109 mm x 180 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Studies of ears, by ca. 1840
Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)
RA Collection: Art
A sheet of eight studies of ears in monochrome watercolour. These were probably copied from an artist's manual, such as The Artist's Vade Mecum, 1762.
Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester. John Homes Smith and his son John Halphead Smith who collected these drawings also worked as porcelain painters and it is almost certain that they knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.
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109 mm x 180 mm
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