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Drawings Roman statue of Hercules

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.84

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 215mm
Width: 172mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Antique Statue of Hercules lauriated purchased of Sig Caviceppi a sculptor at Rome & now in the Collection of Lyde Browne at Wimbledon 1762.

Inscription content

figure is
now in the Hermitage
SRP

See Minutes: Nov. 10 1763.
(vol IX. p. 129).
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, d., drawing VIII, 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. 10.

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. 20, 21, pl. 9.