Cleveland Musuem of Art
George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
- Pastel on paper stretched on linen
- 37 × 27 inches · 940 × 690 mm
- Inscribed on the dog’s collar: COWPER
Drawn 1785
Collections
- George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper;
- George Clavering-Cowper, 4th Earl Cowper;
- Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper;
- George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper;
- Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper;
- Katrina Cowper, Countess Cowper;
- Ethel, Lady Desborough;
- The Hon. Monica Grenfell, later Lady Salmond;
- Rosemary Salmond, later Lady Ravensdale;
- Private collection, by descent.
Literature
- G. C. Williamson, Daniel Gardner: Painter in Pastel and Gouache, p.94, reproduced;
- Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online edition, cat. no. J.375.1225;
- Ed. Philip Sheail, ‘The Third Earl Cowper and his Florentine Household 1760-90’, Hertfordshire Record Society, vol. 36, 2020, p.48, reproduced.