John Martin
Adonis and Aphrodite

Adonis and Aphrodite

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Adonis and Aphrodite
ArtistBritish, 1789–1854
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Adonis and Aphrodite
Datec. 1819
MediumWatercolor over graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 10 1/2 in. (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Eugenia Kiesling
Object number2018.235
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK; [sale, Banbury, Holloway’s Auctioneers, 28 February 2018, lot 332]; [Andrew Clayton-Payne & Co., Ltd., London], 2018; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition Historynone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink, bottom right corner: J. Martin
none known
Catalogue raisonnénone known

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