Property of
A CONNECTICUT COLLECTOR
AMERICAN SCHOOL, dated 1809
Details
AMERICAN SCHOOL, dated 1809
Portrait of Daniel Lambert
ink on paper
8 1/4 x 6 3/8in.
Inscribed at bottom in ink, "Thirty-nine years of Age, weighed upwards of 52 sto. 11 lbs. (14 lb. to the Stone) or seven hundred pounds,
measured three yards, four inches round the Body, and One Yard One Inch round the Leg, was five feet eleven inches in Height, and had no blemish whatever on any Part of his Body.--Died, and was buried at Stamford, June 21, 1809."
Portrait of Daniel Lambert
ink on paper
8 1/4 x 6 3/8in.
Inscribed at bottom in ink, "Thirty-nine years of Age, weighed upwards of 52 sto. 11 lbs. (14 lb. to the Stone) or seven hundred pounds,
measured three yards, four inches round the Body, and One Yard One Inch round the Leg, was five feet eleven inches in Height, and had no blemish whatever on any Part of his Body.--Died, and was buried at Stamford, June 21, 1809."
Provenance
Christie's, New York, May 23, 1985, Lot 67.