Drawings Roman statue of a youth with a dead bird

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.85

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

paper
pencil
pen
ink

Technique

Drawing

Materials and techniques note

The drawing has a ruled border.

Dimensions

Height: 240mm
Width: 173mm

Location

Burlington House - Classical Antiquities

Associated place

Wimbledon
Merton
Greater London
England
United Kingdom
Pavlovsk Palace Museum
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Antique Statue of a youth lamenting the death of his Bird purchased of Mr Jenkins a painter at Rome & now in the Collection of Lyde Browne at Wimbledon 1762.

Inscription content

3ft 7in high

Inscription content

See ditto.
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 IX, pl. LXI, between pp. 206 and 207.

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. 25, 26, pl. 10.