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George Romney, 1734–1802, British, The Destruction of Niobe's Children, undated
- Title:
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: Figures
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541); circular collector's mark, verso: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4542)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.633
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children | castle | children | cliff | goddesses | gods | heroine | horse (animal) | landscape | legend | meteorology | mountains | poem | poet | queen (person) | religious and mythological subject | storm | suffering
- Associated Places:
- Boeotia | Greece | Thebes | Voíótía
- Associated People:
- Apollo
Diana
Niobe - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6763
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Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no. 37, NJ18 R65 S46 [ORBIS]
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