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British Museum (Museum number 1864,0611.11) / https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_obj…IMAGE INFORMATION

A magnificent print of Niobe

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

February 1782

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65r

Additional Source Text:

"Representing a rich Landskape, and a Storm of Thunder and Lightning, in which appollo and Diana are seen on some clouds shooting arrows at Niobe and her children, painted by Richard Wilson and engraved by William Woollet, London, 1761."

Notes:

Engraving by William Woollett (1735-1785), after Richard Wilson (1713-1782), "Niobe" (London, 1761)