John Flaxman
1755-1826
"Awake, arise, rouse her as I rouse thee. The Furies."
10 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (261 x 366 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over faint indications in graphite, on paper.
1975.40:3
Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
Notes
Watermark: fragment of fleur-de-lis.
Design for pl. 30 in "Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed by John Flaxman," London, 1831.
Design for pl. 30 in "Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed by John Flaxman," London, 1831.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "56" on small blue-bordered label on verso.
Associated names
Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 262.
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