Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink and graphite on medium moderately textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (32.1 x 52.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541)
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:
B1979.12.634
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
children | Suffering, misfortune of Niobe | suffering | religious and mythological subject | destruction | Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children | Greek | heroine | arrows | murder | legend
Associated Places:
Voíótía | Thebes | Boeotia | Greece
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. 38, NJ18 R65 S46