Venus rising

Details

Thomas Stothard, R.A. (1755-1834)
Venus rising
signed and dated 'T. Stothard 1814' (lower left)
pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 March 1964, lot 209.
F.R. Meatyard, Kent.
The Hon. John Stourton.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 29 October 1968, lot 92.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 October 2007, lot 1363.

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Lot Essay

In A. C. Coxhead's illustrated monograph on Thomas Stothard, R.A (London, 1906) he describes the miniature publications produced by Pickering in the mid 1820's for which Thomas Stothard designed frontispieces: 'Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius has a group of nymphs and fauns; Horace has a picture of Venus stepping from a shell, attended by young sea-gods, cupids flutter in the air above her head.' (p. 214).

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