Anton Raphael Mengs ÚSTI NAD LABEM, BOHEMIA (CZECH REPUBLIC) 1728 - 1779 ROME OEDIPUS AT COLONNOS BEFORE THE TEMPLE OF THE EUMENIDES Pen and brown ink and wash and faded blue wash, heightened with white; signed in Greek lettering: Μ Ε Ν Ξ; bears inscription in brown ink, verso, in the hand of Sir Thomas Robinson This drawing representing Oedipus before the Temple of ye Furies at Corinth was done by Mengs at Rome as an Imitation of the Antique in order to be engraved. Pichler accordingly copied it for me, (who procured the drawing of Mengs himself) in 1763: upon a fine onyx P Montagu has it's Companion, Priam at Achilles's - feet, drawn by Mengs & engraved by Pichler 180 by 223 mm
Anton Raphael Mengs ÚSTI NAD LABEM, BOHEMIA (CZECH REPUBLIC) 1728 - 1779 ROME OEDIPUS AT COLONNOS BEFORE THE TEMPLE OF THE EUMENIDES Pen and brown ink and wash and faded blue wash, heightened with white; signed in Greek lettering: Μ Ε Ν Ξ; bears inscription in brown ink, verso, in the hand of Sir Thomas Robinson This drawing representing Oedipus before the Temple of ye Furies at Corinth was done by Mengs at Rome as an Imitation of the Antique in order to be engraved. Pichler accordingly copied it for me, (who procured the drawing of Mengs himself) in 1763: upon a fine onyx P Montagu has it's Companion, Priam at Achilles's - feet, drawn by Mengs & engraved by Pichler 180 by 223 mm
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