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

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 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

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.