The Sack of Troy with Aeneas and His Family Fleeing (Virgil, Aeneid 2.671-729
Drawing
1572 (drawn)
1572 (drawn)
| Artist/Maker |
In the foreground, Aeneas, with his father, Anchises, on his back, and his son, Ascanius, beside him, fleeing from the burning city. In the background, the Trojan horse standing before several temples; in the middle ground fighting soldiers.
Object details
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| Title | The Sack of Troy with Aeneas and His Family Fleeing (Virgil, Aeneid 2.671-729 (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with opaque white (now partly oxidized), on brownish paper; traces of a framing line in black chalk |
| Brief description | Drawing 'The Sack of Troy with Aeneas and His Family Fleeing', Anonymous Flemish, Brush and wash over chalk, 1572 |
| Physical description | In the foreground, Aeneas, with his father, Anchises, on his back, and his son, Ascanius, beside him, fleeing from the burning city. In the background, the Trojan horse standing before several temples; in the middle ground fighting soldiers. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Illegibly signed(?) or inscribed in brown ink, at bottom right corner ...lovito(?); and dated on the base of a stone ornament in the lower left, 1572. Inscribed on old washed mount, at bottom right, in graphite, Coll. H.C. Jennings, and on verso of old mount, at bottom left, in brown ink, From the collection of C. Jennings, and in graphite, Thos. Thane |
| Object history | Henry Constantine Jennings (1731–1818), Shiplake, Oxon, and London (L. 2771);1 Thomas Thane (1782–1846), London (L. 2433); Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (Dalton Bequest dry stamp on recto and purple ink stamp on verso; not in Lugt), 1900. |
| Literary reference | The Aeneid, Virgil 2.671-729 |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. II, Cat. 606, illus. p. 550 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.1078-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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