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Orestes Imploring Apollo for Help against the Furies

Tommaso Piroli
approximately 1752-1824

Orestes Imploring Apollo for Help against the Furies

Full sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (217 x 324 mm); design area: 6 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (166 x 287 mm)
Graphite on tracing paper.
1976.11

Gift of Mr. Charles Ryskamp.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Drawing after John Flaxman's design for "The Tragedies of Aeschylus," London, 1795.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed below drawing, in graphite, "Oreste supplichevole avanti Apolli implora il suo soccorso contro le Furie"; numbered at upper left, in graphite, "23".
Associated names
Flaxman, John, 1755-1826, Copy after.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
Aeschylus.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 283-284.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department