ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS LAWRENCE(BRITISH 1769-1830)"STUDY FOR JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE AS ROLLA"Inscribed with artist verso, black and white chalk with traces of red chalk on gray paperSheet size: 15 9/16 x 11 11/16 in. (39.5 x 29.7cm)PROVENANCE:George Guy, Fourth Earl of Warwick (Lugt 2600).His Sale, Christie's, London, May 20th-21st, 1896, lot 208A (combined lot of "two sketches of John Philip Kemble as different characters").Private Collection, Pennsylvania.NOTE:The present drawing depicts18th century actor John Philip Kemble in the role of Rolla, the Peruvian hero in the 1790s play "Pizarro in Peru" (or the Death of Rolla), arguably the most popular British play of the entire eighteenth century adapted from the German by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.