Drawings Bust of Hercules

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.82

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 232mm
Width: 182mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Purchased in 1766 by Mr Jenkins out of the Barberini Palace for Lyde Browne. Jos. Spence mentions it in his Polymitis, & has given a print of its head, he calls it suffering Hercules, & with great propriety says 'tis of the highest Greek taste.

Inscription content

Head only, in Hermitage.
SRP

See Minutes, Nov. 26. 1764 [sic] (vol IX. p. 400).
S.R.P.

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, a., drawing VI, pl. LXII, between pp. 206 and 207.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), p. 13, cat. no. 73.

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. Illustrations, figs. 17, 18, 19, pl. 9.