print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1870,0813.405
- Title
- Series: Thirty pictures by deceased British Artists
- Description
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XXIII; Destruction of the children of Niobe; 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. 1857, published 1860
Wood-engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1857-1860
- Dimensions
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Height: 143 millimetres
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Width: 200 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1870,0813.386 for Comment about the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,0813.405
