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
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 232mm
Width: 182mm
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.
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.