drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2010,5006.1877.27
- Description
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Drawing from an album of 40 prints and drawings of bas-reliefs; marble relief with three registers: the infant Dionysos with satyrs and a maenad, Aphrodite and Eros with a triton and a bull, and hunters carrying a boar (BM Cat. Sculpture 2209)
Black chalk on a sheet of paper inlaid into a second sheet together with 2010,5006.1877.28, and framed in a series of pen and ink borders; loose in the album. Album tooled in gold on spine 'Drawings III Bas Reliefs etc in Marble'
- Production date
- 1768 - 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 425 millimetres (album cover)
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Height: 157 millimetres
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Width: 330 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 123 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Album (2010,5006.1877.1-40), consists of 40 prints and drawings, most of which are representations of objects which belonged to Charles Townley. The album is bound in brown leather and tooled in gold on spine 'Drawings III Bas Reliefs etc in Marble'. Inscribed on the first page by Charles Townley: "93 sheaves in this Vol:", and underneath in another hand: "Paper label on spine removed 24/2/69 when book furbished / Lettering read "Townley Bas- Reliefs" "Duplicate Drawings / C. C. 5 a."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5006.1877.27