drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 2011,7084.49
- Description
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Perseus and Andromeda; Andromeda stepping down from a stone, Perseus, in an embracing gesture, attempting to cover her nudity with a cloak held in his left hand, and holding up her chain behind her with his right, the horse behind at right, the sea at the front, the cliff in the background; after Cipriani.
Pen and ink with grey and brown wash
- Production date
- 1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 99 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For Earlom's print of this subject, belonging to the fifty plate series 'A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani', see 1861,0518.361.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- 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.
Sold at Kunst auction, Hamburg, late 60s early 70s, and purchased by Christopher Lennox-Boyd a year later at Christie's.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2011,7084.49