Pen and black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches (23.5 x 34.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left to lower right: "Detraction thro a false medium showing Majesty the picture of Vice, Display'd by | Falshood & Envy, to Conceal the acts of Virtue - "
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5693
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
whips | columns | orbs | Pyramids | sculptures | moons | mediums | religious and mythological subject | kings | statues | men | women | visions
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:
Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 71-2, no. 73, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)