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Diana the Huntress
Details
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Diana the Huntress
with signature 'T. Rowlandson' (lower right)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, watermark '1802'
8.5/8 x 6 in. (21.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Diana the Huntress
with signature 'T. Rowlandson' (lower right)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, watermark '1802'
8.5/8 x 6 in. (21.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Provenance
Ray Livingston Murphy; Christie's London, 19 November 1985, lot 108.
with Michael Bryan, London.
with Michael Bryan, London.
Sale room notice
We are grateful to David Ekserdjian for suggesting that this composition is after the engraving of Diana by Jacopo Caraglio (1501-1565), (B. 35), the twelfth of a series of twenty prints in the Gods in Niches series, engraved after designs by Rosso Fiorentino in 1526.