Niobe

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Niobe
Niobe
Niobe
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Artist
William Pengree Sherlock after Wilson
Title
Niobe
Date
c.1820 (undated)
Medium
Lithograph on chine collé
Dimensions
Metric: 185 x 255 mm
Imperial: 7 1/4 x 10 in.
Accession Number
1878,0511.623
Wilson Online Reference
E65
Description
Niobe is standing in a clearing below the rocks in an overcast landscape, her arm around her youngest daughter. Apollo draws his bow to strike down another of the children, eight of whom are grouped near their mother, dead, grieving and dying, while a ninth tries, in vain, to flee on horseback across a bridge to the right
Provenance
Bought from Thomas Way, Lithographic Printing Office, 21 Wellington Street, Strand, London, 1878
Signature/inscription
Lettered below the image with title, production detail: 'R. Wilson, R.A. pinxt', 'W. P. Sherlock Fecit.' and publication line: 'London, Published by R. Ackermann, 96, Strand | Printed by Lefevre & Co'
Related Drawings
D355 Recumbent Male Nude (Figure Study for Niobe), National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Related Paintings
P90 The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Critical commentary
A pair to or in the same series as E66 Phaeton. The lithographic printer L.M. Lefevre was based at 52 Newman Street, London 1833-35. Before that he was in partnership with William Kohler.