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    Museum collections / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Lovers embracing (recto). A suppliant figure (verso) by James Jefferys
    James Jefferys. Lovers embracing (recto). A suppliant figure (verso), 1779. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00023597

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    Lovers embracing (recto). A suppliant figure (verso)

    by James Jefferys

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    James Jefferys (British, Maidstone 1751–1784 London)
    Date
    1779
    Medium
    Pen and carbon black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 13 3/4 × 22 in. (34.9 × 55.9 cm)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawings
    Department
    Drawings and Prints
    Credit line
    Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
    Accession no.
    2013.145

    Provenance

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

    More by James Jefferys in museum collections

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      Nude Male Figures Bearing the Bodies of their Dead Companions

      James Jefferys

      c. 1779 · Drawing

      Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006170

    Open-access museum data

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    Open-access museum record · AT-00023597

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