print
- Museum number
- Kk,4.57
- Title
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Object: Democritus and Protagoras
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Series: Houghton Gallery
- Description
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Democritus standing before Protagoras, looking down at him with outstretched arms, hailing him as a philosopher on seeing him bind a bundle of twigs, thereby making them stronger than a single stick would have been, while Protagoras looks up, holding the bundle on a rock and leaning on it with his right knee to keep them together; with a tree in the background to right, landscape visible over the brow of the hill where they are grouped and two other men turning to watch to left; after Salvator Rosa. Plate 55 of Vol.1 of the 'Houghton Gallery'. 1778
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1778
- Dimensions
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Height: 491 millimetres
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Width: 353 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An engraved version in reverse direction, by Isaac Taylor (I) which bears the Houghton crest and Boydell's publication line dated 1773, also seems to have been produced for the Houghton Gallery series (see W,7.155), although it is not listed in Rubinstein.
For a comment on the 'Houghton Gallery', see Kk,4.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Houghton Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Acquisition notes
- for comment on the acquisition history see Kk,4.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Kk,4.57
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 1980,U.1615
