AT-00006170
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Nude Male Figures Bearing the Bodies of their Dead Companions
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso lower right, in pen and brown ink: “91” (?)
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James Jefferys / English, 1751-1784
- Date
- c. 1779
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and reddish-brown wash on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 × 56.4 cm (14 × 22 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2017.197
Provenance
Sold by a private collector, England, to Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, by 1949; sold to a private collector, 1949. Sold Bloomsbury, London, Oct. 13, 2011, lot 206. Private collection, London, from 2014; sold to the Art Institute, 2017.
More by James Jefferys in museum collections
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Open-access museum record · AT-00006170
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