drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1884,0726.40.1
- Description
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Leaf from a sketchbook containing 149 leaves with studies for figure-compositions, portraits and landscapes, many of which are for decorative works
Frontispiece; Hercules supporting an oval cartouche inscribed " Jac: Thornhill. ejus Liber An: Dom: 1699", attended by cupids with symbols of the Arts, and above him Mercury, Minerva and Fame, with Apollo and the Muses on clouds. 1699
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash
Verso: sheet of small studies including infant Bacchanals with goat, man in bed eating, Time and 'Genius Pictoris', a trophy, 'Genius Pictoris' (study for 1882,0726.40.2) and an unidentified composition
Graphite
- Production date
- 1699
- Dimensions
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Height: 356 millimetres
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Width: 231 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From sketchbook 1884,0726.40.1-147
For a general comment on the whole sketchbook, see 1884,0726.40.1.a
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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See 1884,0726.40.1.a
2020 4 Feb-19 Apr, London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1884,0726.40.1