Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
A frieze designed for Edward Knight
- Pen, ink and wash on two pieces of conjoined paper
- 9 ¼ × 30 ¼ inches · 235 × 767 mm
- Drawn in 1791
Inscribed on the verso:
‘the horses for the chariot of the sun, the front of an Sarcophagus lately purchased by the Pope/ figures about 22 inches high of a grand character of sculpture best in correct, the heads of Apollo, Diana, Autumn, & Summer as well as some of the most projecting limbs being broken are restored by me in the drawing’
Collections
- Commissioned by Edward Knight (1734-1812);
- John Knight (1760-1850), nephew of the above;
- Frederick Winn Knight (1812-1897); son of the above;
- Major Eric Ayshford Knight (1863-1944), nephew of the above, at Wolverley House;
- Presumably sold, Wolverley House sale (G. H. Banks, Kidderminster, April 25-28 1945);
- Private collection to 2022
Literature
- Eds. Hugh Brigstocke, Eckart Marchand and A. E. Wright, ‘John Flaxman and William Young Ottley in Italy’, The Walpole Society, vol.LXXII, 2010, pp.154-155