Mauritius Lowe, 1746–1793, British, An Allegory on the Plight of the Artist, between 1772 and 1790
- Title:
- An Allegory on the Plight of the Artist
- Date:
- between 1772 and 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches (23.5 x 34.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink lower left to lower right: "Detraction thro a false medium showing Majesty the picture of Vice, Display'd by | Falshood & Envy, to Conceal the acts of Virtue - "
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5693
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- columns | kings | mediums | men | moons | orbs | Pyramids | religious and mythological subject | sculptures | statues | visions | whips | women
- Associated People:
- demons
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:14955
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The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 71-2, no. 73, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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