Tommaso Piroli
approximately 1752-1824
Lampezia Reporting the Slaughter of the Oxen Consecrated to the Sun
sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (217 x 324 mm); design area: 6 5/8 x 11 5/16 inches (166 x 287 mm)
Graphite on tracing paper.
1976.10
Gift of Mr. Charles Ryskamp.
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Watermark: none.
Drawing after John Flaxman's design for "The Odyssey of Homer," probably for the Italian edition, Rome, 1793.
Drawing after John Flaxman's design for "The Odyssey of Homer," probably for the Italian edition, Rome, 1793.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed below drawing, in graphite, "Lampezia visto lo scempio fatto dei compagni di Ulisse dei boui consacrati al Sole, tutta dolente ne port ad / Esso la nuova. Il medesimo sdegnato trattiene dal corso I destrieri per udire l'intiero racconto del sacrilego mis = / fatto"; numbered at upper left, in graphite, "16".
Associated names
Flaxman, John, 1755-1826, Copy after.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Homer. Odyssey.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Homer. Odyssey.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 283.
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