4. Female Faces
Pencil and ink drawing with watercolour entitled ‘Maria’ by Cassandra. Signed with initials CEA and dated 1808.
This drawing copies an engraving entitled ‘Maria’ by Peltro William Tomkins, after John Russell (1792), which can be seen below. The heartbroken Maria, shown with her dog Silvio and a hallmark flute, is a well-known character from Laurence Sterne’s novel Sentimental Journey (1768).
Pencil drawing with watercolour by Cassandra, dated [J]une 1795.
This drawing is a copy of a plate from an instruction manual entitled Cipriani’s Rudiments of Drawing (1786), shown below. Cassandra’s version has been trimmed on the left, presumably to remove the old man.
Image reproduced courtesy of The Getty Research Institute.
Pencil drawing with watercolour by Cassandra. Signed and dated ‘C.E.A. 1806’.
This drawing is a copy of a print entitled ‘Conjugal Love’ by Bartolozzi, first published in 1786. A facsimile of the published print can be seen below.
Image reproduced courtesy of Worcester Art Museum