drawing
- Museum number
- 2005,0926.25
- Description
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No. 26:
Sarcophagus relief: rape of Persephone.
Pen, brown and grey washes on white.
No. 27:
Sarcophagus relief: Bacchic scene (satyr with infant Dionysos (?), at left; Dionysos and Ariadne in the centre; maenad with tympanum at right).
Brown ink and grey wash on white.
No. 28:
Sarcophagus end: an elderly seated intellectual faced by a young reader, at the right, a cippus between.
Pen and brown wash on white.
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 millimetres (no. 26)
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Height: 123 millimetres (no. 27)
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Height: 168 millimetres (no. 28)
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Width: 115 millimetres (no. 26)
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Width: 233 millimetres (no. 27)
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Width: 203 millimetres (no. 28)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- No. 26:
This drawing seems very close to Matz-Duhn, no. 3062; Robert, Sark.-Rel., III, 3, p. 465, no. 373 and photo: the Proserpina sarcophagus in the Palazzo Barberini. The drawing is not accurate, shows restorations, and is abbreviated. If this is the sarcophagus drawn, the artist has misunderstood the costuming, attributes, and gestures of Tellus at the right.
No. 27:
Other drawings:
British Museum, Aspertini, Fol. 1. Mrs. Bober identifies this as the lid of the Farnese-Gardner sarcophagus, drawn below as Fol. 48, no. 55.
No. 28:
From the end of a sarcophagus with the Muses, or similar subject.
[this information from: C. C. Vermeule, The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum (type-written manuscript in G&R)]
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1903
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2005,0926.25
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Vol.I, fol. 25, nos. 26-28 (Franks)