The Punishment of Laocoön (A design for Virgil's 'Aeneid', Book II)

Details

• Title

  The Punishment of Laocoön (A design for Virgil's 'Aeneid', Book II)

• Artist/maker

  Francis Cleyn (c. 1582 - 1658)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1653

• Material and technique

  brush and grey wash, incised for transfer and reddened on verso

• Object type

  visual representation › drawing

• Dimensions

  sheet 25.9 x 19.6 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834, and transferred from the Bodleian Library in 1863.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1863.1002

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