drawing
- Museum number
- 1902,0606.160
- Description
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Achilles; whole-length nude figure seated to right, playing a lyre, a shield decorated with a face and horse-drawn chariots at r, with a belt and sword, at left a helmet. 1768
Pen and grey ink and grey wash
- Production date
- 1768
- Dimensions
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Height: 146 millimetres
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Width: 119 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- We are grateful to Judith Barber (email July 2020) for pointing out that the original engraved amethyst is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (inv.58.1815). The latter was illustrated in Stosch's 'Germmae Antiquae', 1724, no, 67, which was likely the source for this drawing.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1969, BM, 'Royal Academy Draughtsmen 1769-1969', no.98
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,0606.160
