Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
Jupiter
7 1/4 x 4 7/16 inches (184 x 113 mm)
Pen and brown ink, and wash, pink and gray washes, on wove paper.
1969.6
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: Fragment on sheet edge, crown over a letter J / 18 Watermark, beta radograph. crown. 123266wm_1969_6_WM_beta.jpg
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink at lower edge, "Jupiter from a Greek vase".
Associated names
Powney, Christopher, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 120.
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Century Drawings
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