Drawings Roman statue of Cupid

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.87

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 178mm
Width: 229mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique figure of a sleepg. Cupid purchased for Lyde Brown of Card. Albani by Mr Jenkins 1763. Boissard mentions a similar one to be in the collection of Card. Gaddi about 200 years ago.

Inscription content

See ditto.
S.R.P.

now in B.M.

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 XI, pl. LXIII, between pp. 206 and 207.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), pp. 7-8, cat. no. 34.

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. Illustration, fig. 59, pl. 14.