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The contest between Apollo and Pan [drawing] : new version for A.D. 1847 / designed by W. Newman.

BIB_ID
283419
Accession number
MA 2011.10
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
1847.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
The drawing is unsigned but is likely the work of Thackeray.
Part of the Bradbury album, a scrapbook of letters, sketches, drawings, prints, photographs, and printed ephemera. Significant items in the album are described in 27 individual records (MA 2011.1-27).
97 x 149 mm
Summary
Drawing of Apollo seated on the left, facing right and playing a lyre, and Pan seated on the right, facing left and playing what appears to be a banjo. King Midas sits between them and is depicted with a donkey's head. Thackeray's Pan is of African descent.
Medium
Pencil on paper.
Classification