Venus and Maidens (Primary Title)

Thomas Stothard, English, 1755 - 1834 (Artist)

19th century
English
Works On Paper
Drawings
gray ink and wash on cardstock
Sheet: 6 × 5 1/2 in. (15.24 × 13.97 cm)
Image: 3 1/8 × 2 1/8 in. (7.94 × 5.4 cm)
86.345
Not on view
Signed in ink within image lower left: T Stothard
Collectors mark of Douglas H. Gordon (Lugt 1130a) lower right.
Inscribed in ink in lower margin: Beneath the rising moon, fair Venus leads/ Her various dance/ Horace Ode IV. Inscribed in graphite lower right: "11" and "217" (next to Gordon collectors mark). Inscribed in graphite on verso: A14379.
Bequest of Douglas H. Gordon
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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