[Soldiers and prisoner] [art original] / J.B.
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1806]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and brown ink on laid paper, with wash-line mount ; sheet 15.2 x 12.8 cm, mounted to 19 x 16.4 cm
- Notes:
- Title from local catalog card.
Signed in ink with the artist's initials in lower right corner of mount; also signed on verso with the same initials.
Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in at page 153 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954. - Abstract:
- Ink drawing depicting a prisoner, possibly Saint Laurence of Rome, about to be burned over coals by Roman soldiers. The prisoner's hands are bound behind his back and he is naked apart from a loin cloth; a soldier on foot grasps him from behind while two mounted soldiers look on. Four other figures surround the prisoner, one crouching at the prisoner's feet and spreading coals. A statue of a seated figure next to an eagle is visible in the upper right, probably an architectual element of a building in the background.
- Topics:
- Drawing, English--18th century.
Martyrs.
Soldiers--Roman. - Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Laurence,--Saint, of Rome,---258. - Language:
- No linguistic content; Not applicable
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio
75
B935
805
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 46 Box 5 - Orbis Record:
- 13097120
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25668v
- Citation:
- Soldiers and Prisoner. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193691
- PID:
- digcoll:4047984
