Drawings Sculptural relief of Endymion

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.88

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 170mm
Width: 220mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique alto relievo of a sleepg. Endymion bought of the Barberini family by Mr Jenkins 1762 for Lyde Browne. It is supposed to have been found in digging the foundations of the palace.

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, b., drawing XII, pl. LXIV, between pp. 222 and 223.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), p. 14, cat. no. 75.

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. 15, 16, pl. 8.