drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1348
- Description
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One of the drawings for the decorative paintings at Greenwich Hospital, 1718-25, designs for the cove of the ceiling of the upper hall, the four continents; Europe with white horse, and putti symbolizing the Arts, Asia with a bowl of incense and camel, and putti with bananas, Africa with lion, and putti holding up a sunshade, America with putti astride an alligator
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite
- Production date
- 1718-1725
- Dimensions
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Height: 198 millimetres
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Width: 318 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Mounted with 1865,0610.1356
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1958 Jun-Jul, Guildhall AG, 'Sir James Thornhill', no.71
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Acquisition notes
- The group of 56 drawings by Thornhill, 1865,0610.1325 to 1380, was composed of the 34 drawings that formed lot 323 in the sale of the library of John Towneley (Sotheby's, 10-11.v.1865, £4 8s to Daniell), and 22 more drawings from Daniell's stock (part of a group purchased together with two drawings by David Allan and Richard Cosway - for which see 1865, 0610.1320 to 1322 - for £3 7s). It does not seem possible to say which drawings came from which source.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0610.1348
