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
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 178mm
Width: 229mm
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.
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.