Drawings Bust of Hadrian

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.92

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jenkins, Thomas - Artist

Production date

18th century

Production place

Rome (city)

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 207mm
Width: 160mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

An antique Bust of Hadrian found some years ago in his Villa at Tivoli by Sig. Lolli in digging up some part of the premises.

Inscription content

See
Minutes: May 7. 1767.
(vol. X. p. 330)
S.R.P.

[now in B.M. No 1896; vide Smith]
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 XVI, pl. LXVI, between pp. 222 and 223.

Reference (free text)

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

Reference (free text)

A H Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum 3 vols. (London, 1892-1904), 3: 157-8, cat. no. 1896. Illustration, fig. 1, pl. XVI, vol. 3.

Reference (free text)

B F Cook, The Townley Marbles (London: British Museum Publications, 1985), p. 13. Illustration, p. 13.

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.