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Paintings and Sculpture
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Carwitham, Thomas, active 1723
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Delvaux, Laurent, 1696–1778
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Scheemakers, Peter Gaspar, 1691–1781
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1749
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1771
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1774
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1792
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1793
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1795
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Sculptures
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male
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Collective Title
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book V
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18th century
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Materials & Techniques
brown ink
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brown wash
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marble
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pen
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laid paper
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wove paper
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drawing
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literary theme
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portrait
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nude
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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sleeping
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Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
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blanket
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building
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child
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historical subject
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man
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pharaoh
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pose
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trees
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Associated People
Ariadne
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Ascalabus, son of Misme
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Callisto, one of the followers of Artemis
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Ceres, Roman deity
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Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
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Jupiter
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Misme, mother of Ascalabus
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Exhibition History
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781
Cleopatra
ca. 1723
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Laurent Delvaux, 1696–1778
Ariadne
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5
ca. 1723