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    Niobe

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    Niobe
    Niobe
    Niobe
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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.
    Collection
    The British Museum. To license image, click here
    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.

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Recumbent Male Nude (Figure Study for Niobe), National Museum Wales, Cardiff

    Paintings

    • The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

    Biographies

    • William Pengree Sherlock (Born 1775)
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