John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1720)
Title:
Illustration to the Iliad
Date:
between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink on mount, lower left: "Michl Rysbrack invt.;" in brown ink on mount, lower right: "12/-;" verso: "The Iliade of Homer. Book the V./ Diomedes, fought Pandarus and killed him; Aeneas, going to/ Revenge his Death[,] Diomedes throws a large stone at him and broke/ both his Thighs, and the nerve of his heel, when Venus seeing him/ in such danger took him away in a cloud;" versp, lower right: " No. 1"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.19.2
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
battles | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | the Trojan war (94C - 94H)
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. 41, no. 30, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)