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Artist: Thornhill, James (54)

Period: 17th century (5013) | 18th century (4787)

Type: graphite (1872) | ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: British (2582)

Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary character)  (10) | Jupiter (Roman deity)  (11) | Venus (Roman deity)  (62)

Keywords
buildings and structures (11074) | designs (344) | goddesses (272) | gods (356)

Design for ceiling decoration - Venus petitions Jupiter for Aeneas' deification

17th century & 18th century

Thornhill, James    more

Graphite, pen and ink (brown), watercolour (green-grey) on paper

height: 22 cm; width: 13.3 cm

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.2237

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London