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Object Type
print
Museum number
1868,0822.1832
Title
Object:
Niobe
Description
Niobe kneeling in a clearing below rocks in an overcast landscape, her arm around her youngest daughter, looking up and defying Latona, who sits in clouds in upper left, watching her son Apollo avenge her for the Theban Queen's boast that she was richer in her fourteen children than the goddess in her two; he draws his bow to strike down another of the children, eight of whom are grouped near their mother, dead, grieving and dying, while a ninth tries, in vain, to flee on horseback across a bridge to left; after Wilson; published state before final alteration of publication line. 1792 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
William Sharp
(figures)
Print made by:
Samuel Smith
(landscape)
After:
Richard Wilson
School/style
British
Production date
1792
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
495 millimetres
Width:
655 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Baker 1875 / William Sharp Engraver, with a descriptive catalogue of his works
(113.III)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Niobe
Representation of:
Leto/Latona
Representation of:
Apollo
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Felix Slade
Acquisition date
1868
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0822.1832