Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003887Design for Ceiling Fresco: Apollo and the Muses with Minerva Destroying Ignorance
Exhibition history
John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1971), p. 236, pl. 180.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James Thornhill / English, 1675-1734
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, on tan laid paper, partially laid down
- Dimensions
- 27.1 × 33.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.1629
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