drawing
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.56
- Description
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One of the drawings for decorative paintings, in Blenheim Palace, Design for the ceiling of the Hall, Hercules received in Olympus; within a tall oval compartment, Hercules kneeling right with hand to his chest, Victory hovering over him, Jupiter enthroned, above the other deities of Olympus seated on clouds, with Saturn or Time flying away in the foreground, Mercury descending and a curved colonnade to left. 1716 (?)
Pen and brown ink, with brown-grey wash, heightened with white, on blue-grey
paper
- Production date
- 1714-1718 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres
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Width: 282 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.30
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.56
