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John Flaxman
1755-1826
"Awake, arise, rouse her as I rouse thee. The Furies."
Pen and brown ink, over faint indications in graphite, on paper.
10 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (261 x 366 mm)
Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
1975.40:3
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Watermark: fragment of fleur-de-lis.
Design for pl. 30 in "Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed by John Flaxman," London, 1831.
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Numbered "56" on small blue-bordered label on verso.
Provenance:
Mrs. W. Murray Crane; by descent to Miss Louise Crane.
Associated names:
Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 262.
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