Drawings Roman statue of Hercules

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.83

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 210mm
Width: 160mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique figure of Hercules strangling the serpents, bought by Mr Jenkins for Lyde Browne 1763. It was found at a place call'd Roma Vecchia on the Via Appia.

Inscription content

See Minutes, 22 Nov. 1764
(Vol. IX. p. 344)
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, c., drawing VII, pl. LXII, between pp. 206 and 207.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), p. 4, cat. no. 7.

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. 27, 28, pl. 10.