drawing; sketch-book

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Object Type: drawing; sketch-book
Museum number: 1884,0726.40.107
Description: Leaf from a sketchbook containing 149 leaves with studies for figure-compositions, portraits and landscapes, many of which are for decorative works Design for the ceiling of the secondary staircase at Wollaton Hall; the Toilet of Venus, with sketches below of a group of putti, the kneeling figure of Hymen and another figure. 1699-1716 Variously pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour, over graphite, and graphite Verso: Sheet of five studies; Thetis directing the infant Achilles to be dipped in the water of he Styx, two studies of Venus and Adonis (?), a standing figure, and a group of small figures Variously pen and brown ink, with brown wash over graphite, and graphite
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Production date: 1699-1716
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Dimensions: Height: 356 millimetres; Width: 231 millimetres
Curator's comments: From sketchbook 1884,0726.40.1-147
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (1); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (68)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: See 1884,0726.40.1.a
Subjects: classical mythology; interior; country house; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Aphrodite/Venus; Representation of: Hymen; Representation of: Thetis; Representation of: Achilles; Representation of: Adonis (?)
Associated places: Associated with: Wollaton
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington; Purchased through: Christie's; Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Thornhill; Previous owner/ex-collection: John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington
Acquisition date: 1884
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1884,0726.40.107

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