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.