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Cimon and Iphigenia: Scene from Boccaccio's Decameron,
ca. 1780
George Romney, 1734–1802; born Dalton-in-Furness, United Kingdom; died Kendal, United Kingdom
x1942-117
Information
Title
Cimon and Iphigenia: Scene from Boccaccio's Decameron
Dates
ca. 1780
Maker
Medium
Recto: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite
Verso: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash
Dimensions
31.4 x 42.5 cm (12 3/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1942-117
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, verso, lower right: Initial M in a square [Lugt 1853a]
Culture
Type
Materials
From “Drawings of George Romney” Smith College exhibition catalogue(?): Dated 1780. (See reference Bib. 4136);
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 1, no. 2 (1942): p. 11., p. 11
- The eighteenth century art of France and England ( L'art en France et en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle), (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1951)., no. 58
- The drawings of George Romney: an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass, (Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1962)., no. 109
