Drawings Bust of Jupiter
Object number
LDSAL2020.16.81
Artist/Designer/Maker
Jenkins, Thomas - Artist
Production date
Circa 1763
Production place
Rome (city)
Material
paper
chalk
chalk
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 211mm
Width: 166mm
Height (of Mount): 316mm
Width (of Mount): 211mm
Width: 166mm
Height (of Mount): 316mm
Width (of Mount): 211mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Antique figure of Jupiter quite entire f[oun]d by Mr Jenkins 1763 of Belisario Amidei at Rome for Lyde Browne in whose collection it now is, but converted into an Herma Jovis. The drapery is oriental alabaster
Inscription content
No record of this drawing in the Minutes.
It is of the Jove* in Lyde Browne's Collection which was at Wimbledon & was probably one of the pieces sold to the Empress Catherine II of Russia.
* No 68 in Browne's Cat. Vet. (1768).
The drawing is probably by Thos. Jenkins.
SRP
It is of the Jove* in Lyde Browne's Collection which was at Wimbledon & was probably one of the pieces sold to the Empress Catherine II of Russia.
* No 68 in Browne's Cat. Vet. (1768).
The drawing is probably by Thos. Jenkins.
SRP
References
Reference (free text)
S Rowland Pierce, 'Thomas Jenkins in Rome: In the Light of Letters, Records, and Drawings at the Society of Antiquaries of London', Antiquaries Journal 45 (1965): 200-29.
Illustration, b., drawing V, pl. LXII, between pp. 206 and 207.
Reference (free text)
Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), p. 12, cat. no. 68.
Reference (free text)
O Neverov, 'The Lyde Browne Collection and the History of Ancient Sculpture in the Hermitage Museum', American Journal of Archaeology 88 (1984): 33-42.