Sketch for "The Conversion of St. Paul" for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral
Date:
between 1709 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:
Red chalk on thin, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (24.1 × 29.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "a first Sketch of one of the pictures| of the Dome of St. Paul's"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "Sir Jas Thornhill| colls: Barnard | Lawrence | Arnal of Toulouse"; lower right: "D 25679 CH."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1405
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
reclining | awe | Christianity | preparatory studies | history paintings | horses (animals) | religious and mythological subject
Associated Places:
St. Paul's Cathedral | London | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 173, no. 146, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)