A scene of sacrifice in antiquity

Details

  • Title

    A scene of sacrifice in antiquity

  • Artist/maker

    Claude Lorrain (c. 1604 or 1605 - 1682)
  • Associated place

    Europe (place of creation)
  • Date

    early 1660s
  • Material and technique

    black chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, surrounded by framing lines in brown ink

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    sheet 18.5 x 25.6 cm (height x width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Mrs Arthur Acland Allen, 1940.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1940.90

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Further reading

Roethlisberger, Marcel, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, 2 (Berkeley, 1968), 882

Whiteley, Jon, Ashmolean Museum, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings, VII, French School, 2 (Oxford, University Press, 2000), 244

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