Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths with an Assembly of the Gods in the Clouds Above

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.

Inscriptions/Markings
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department