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Drawings Roman statue of a boy and a dolphin

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.89

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 186mm
Width: 228mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique group of a boy on a Dolphin purchased by Mr Jenkins of Card. Albani for Lyde Browne 1763. Boissard mentions such a one in Card. Valle's collection.

Inscription content

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, a., drawing XIII, pl. LXIII, between pp. 206 and 207.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768), p. 7, cat. no. 33.

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.