The Death of Adonis
Maker
After
(artist)
1483-1520
(publisher)
1771-1836
(printmaker (?))
(artist)
1483-1520
(publisher)
1771-1836
(printmaker (?))
Title
The Death of Adonis
Date of Production
1818
Medium
etching with aquatint
printed in brown
printed in brown
Dimensions
Height: 46.4 cm
Width: 33.3 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
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
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. //
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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