print study;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1888,0503.34
- Description
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Illustration to "Oedipus Coloneus" (844), by Sophocles; Antigone carried off by Creon from her father, who clings to her from left
Pen and grey ink and grey wash
- Production date
- 1755-1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 91 millimetres
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Width: 158 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- There is a lithograph of the drawing by Maria Denman (Flaxman's sister-in-law) in the BM collection (P&D 1978,U.1923). A pencil note on the print reads: "The original drawing was bought by me at the Denman sale in 1862"
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Oedipus Coloneus
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Acquisition notes
- Probably Flaxman sale, Christie's, 10.iv.1862/part of lot 158, 2 in the lot, 'Illustrations to Sophocles. Oedipus and his daughter; and Antigone dragged from Oedipus - Indian ink backgrounds' bt £1-3-0
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1888,0503.34
