Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pencil, strengthened with ink
  • 9 × 11 ¼ inches · 229 × 285 mm
  • Signed ‘J Flaxman’ (pasted on border, lower right)
    Drawn circa 1795

Collections

  • Thomas Hope, acquired from the artist;
  • Lord Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope by descent, 1917;
  • Pelham-Clinton-Hope sale, Humbert & Flint, 1917;
  • Scott & Fowles, New York by 1918;
  • Private collection, USA.

Exhibitions

  • New York, Scott & Fowles, 1918, Exhibition of Original Drawings by John Flaxman RA, 1918, cat. no. 58 (‘Oceanus (Prometheus chained)’. 

Literature

  • Martin Birnbaum (ed.), Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Drawings by John Flaxman RA, Scott & Fowles, New York, 1918, cat. no. 58 (‘Oceanus (Prometheus chained)’, p. 31.

Private collection, USA