Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Title:: The Destruction of Niobe's Children
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541); circular collector's mark, verso: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4542)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1979.12.633
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: landscape | religious and mythological subject | suffering | heroine | cliff | queen (person) | children | mountains | gods | meteorology | castle | horse (animal) | poet | Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children | goddesses | storm | poem | legend
Associated Places:: Voíótía | Greece | Boeotia | Thebes
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no. 37, NJ18 R65 S46
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6763