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The Death of Adonis

Maker

After
(artist)
1483-1520

(publisher)
1771-1836

(printmaker (?))

Title

The Death of Adonis

Date of Production

1818

Medium

etching with aquatint
printed in brown

Dimensions

Height: 46.4 cm
Width: 33.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6098.12

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

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Inscriptions

Inscription: The Death of Adonis / RAFFAELLO SANZIO DI URBINO. //

Inscription: W.L. fec.t Aq. for..//

Inscription: RAPHAEL / Oxford / Death of Adonis / Pen / Ottley's Italian School of Design, 1823. / Italian Exh. R.A. 1930. //

Inscription: Pub. May 1. 1818. by W.Y.Ottley. Kensington. //

Label: 731 THE BODY OF A YOUTH CARRIED BY THREE MEN (461) / Pen and brown ink. 10 3/8 x 12 3/4 in. (26.2 x 32.5 cm.). Coll.: Antaldi, Crozat, Mariette, de Boisset, St. Morys, Fuseli, Lawrence. / Lit.: J. C. Robinson, A Critical Account, 1870, / No. 44; Fischel, Raphael, 1898, No. 97. / Repr.: Fischel, Raphael, 200. / Engraved by the Comte de Caylus, the Comte de / St. Morys, and in W.Y. Ottley's Italian School of / Design, 1823, facing p. 54. / Lent by the ASHMOLEON MUSEUM, OXFORD. / On the verso Adam receiving the forbidden fruit from Eve (engraved by Marcantonio, / Bartsch, xiv. 3, I). / The drawing was known to earlier collectors as the 'Death of Adonis'. Whatever the subject, / whether the death of a pagan hero or an entombment, it probably dates from after Raphael's / arrival in Rome in 1508 and can have no connexion with the Borghese Entombment for which / the drawings previously described are studies. //

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