drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1881,0709.408
- Description
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Centaur overcoming a Greek figure, from the Parthenon, metope vii (the Elgin Marbles), mounted on original album leaf (38); nude mutilated male figure sculpture. 1808-11
Black chalk, on brown paper
Verso: Lower half of a nude male figure, turned to front, and another in profile to right
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1808-1811 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 517 millimetres
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Width: 644 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For description of album see BM 1881-7-9-345.
From album 1881,0709.345-571
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,0709.408