Master of the Giants, active 1779, Britishattributed to James Jefferys, 1751–1784, Britishformerly attributed to Prince Hoare, 1755–1834, British
Title:
Apollo and Daphne
Date:
between 1770 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with gray washes and graphite; verso: pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 21 inches (35.9 x 53.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink. lower left: "June 79"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "Prince Hoare the Younger ('The Master of the Giants') | Apollo and Daphne (?)"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower right: [31]
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6202
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
branches | Metamorphoses | river-god | pouring | water | trees | woman | jug | religious and mythological subject | branches | Daphne | men
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
Publications:
Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker Ltd, 2019[/]2020, Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, p. 34, DealerCat Lowell Libson Ltd.Lowell Libson Ltd : British Art : 2016, Lowell Libson Ltd., 2016, p. 60, Dealer Cat Lowell Libson 2016 (YCBA)Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 92, no. 90, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)Jonathan Yarker, The Master of the Giants album : a partial reconstruction and attribution, Master Drawings, vol. 62, Spring 2024, p. 74, no. II.17, fig. 29, NC1 .M37 (YCBA)