Sir James Thornhill
1675-1734
Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths with an Assembly of the Gods in the Clouds Above
17 7/8 x 11 inches (454 x 279 mm)
Pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes, over lead, on paper.
1957.11
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
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Watermark: Fleur-de-lis above shield with bend (Heawood 89), shield with diagonal stripes. Strasbourg bend.
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 172.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 99.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 99.
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