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Museum number: 1857,0520.42
Description: London, St Paul's Cathedral, one of the designs for the decoration of the cupola, before 1715, Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (Acts, XIV, 13-18); at the top of a flight of stairs before a patio, with the votaries of Jupiter to right, offering sacrificial gifts, with a circular and domed temple to right, in a oval-shaped compartment Black and red chalk, with brown-grey wash, touched with pen and brown ink and heightened with white, on buff paper
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Production date: 1675-1715
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Dimensions: Height: 378 millimetres; Width: 251 millimetres
Curator's comments: See also 1857,0520.38 See also 1857,0520.40 See also 1857,0520.44 See also 1857,0520.47 See also 1857,0520.50 See also 1857,0520.53 See also 1857,0520.57
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (72); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: acts of apostles; christian saint/martyr; interior; devotee/worshipper
Associated names: Representation of: St Paul; Representation of: St Barnabas
Associated places: Associated with: London
Acquisition name: Purchased from: David McIntosh; Purchased through: Christie's (18-20.v.1857/788 and 789); Purchased through: A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date: 1857
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1857,0520.42

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