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Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759)
Self-portrait, 
Whiteley (2000) 600
Red chalk on fine-textured, off-white paper, laid down on a sheet of white wove paper. Border: pale green and yellow bands of wash, edged with brown ink with two outer lines of gold paint. Sheet: 375 x 247 mm
Inscribed in black chalk below window ledge: LAMBert SIGISBERT ADAM DE NANCY / SCULPr ORDre DU ROY TRES CRETIEN DE L'ACAD
Collector's Mark: Douce (L. 688)
Provenance: Niccolo Gabburi Kent
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834, and transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1863.; 
WA1863.79