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Drawings Roman altar, and a Herm of Hercules

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.90

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 225mm
Width: 180mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique urn & an Hermes [sic] of Hercules purchased by Mr Jenkins for Lyde Browne 1763.

Inscription content

Figure:
now in the Hermitage.
altar?
SRP

See Minutes: Nov. 10. 1763
(vol. IX. p. 129)
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, a., drawing XIV, pl. LXV, between pp. 222 and 223.

Reference (free text)

Catalogus Veteris Ævi Varii Generis Monumentorum Quæ Lyde Browne... (Wimbledon, 1768).

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. 58, pl. 14.