George Romney
Medea Contemplating the Murder of Her Children (recto); Medea Contemplating the Murder of Her Children (verso)
1771
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George Romney
Medea Contemplating the Murder of Her Children (recto); Medea Contemplating the Murder of Her Children (verso)
1771
Physical Qualities
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite (recto); pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite (verso), Sheet: 301 x 439 mm. (11 7/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase Fund
Object Number
1964.117
Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery; London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1963, no. 15
Chapel Hill, NC, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, "English Watercolors and Drawings 1700-1900," 21 September - 26 October, 1975, cat. no. 52, repr. pl. 15
Baltimore Museum of Art, ''Sketches and Sketchbook Pages'', April 25-June 25, 1978.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, "The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s," 12 September - 11 November, 1979, cat. no. 124, repr. pg. 123
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Antique as Inspiration: Eighteenth-Century European Drawings and Prints," 27 June - 26 September 1993.
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, July 27 - November 26, 2012.
Baltimore Museum of Art, ''Sketches and Sketchbook Pages'', April 25-June 25, 1978.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, "The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s," 12 September - 11 November, 1979, cat. no. 124, repr. pg. 123
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Antique as Inspiration: Eighteenth-Century European Drawings and Prints," 27 June - 26 September 1993.
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, July 27 - November 26, 2012.
"Gazette des Beaux-Arts" (Supplement February 1965) p. 48, no. 206.
Maria Ângela Moreira Limes. "Uma Identidade em (Des)Construçao: A figura de Jasão no romance, 'Medea.Stimmen" de Christa Wolf e no drama 'Manhattan Medea' de Dea Loher." Coimbra: MinervaCoimbra, Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Germanísticos, 2008, p. 145, repr.
Alex Kidson. "George Romney 1734-1801." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 128 and p. 138n.48.
Inscribed: Recto: none; Verso: at upper center, in brown ink: "No. 171"; at lower right, in graphite: "2495"
Markings: None
