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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.695
People
John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Title
King of the Lestrigens Seizing One of the Companions of Ulysses (Odyssey); verso: Study for the King of the Lestrigens
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1792
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297966

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
21.5 x 25.6 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.695
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Early Engravings of Flaxman's Classical Designs: A Bibliographical Study, New York Public Library (New York, NY, 1964), p. 29
  • Robert N. Essick and Jenijoy LaBelle, ed., Flaxman's Illustrations to Homer, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1977), under no. 15
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 172, repr. (color)
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 172, repr.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 216, repr. p. 215 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/26/2010 - 01/08/2011

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