Benjamin West
Study for “Thetis Supplicating Zeus”
c. 1760-1792
Physical Qualities
Graphite on wove paper, Sheet: 115 x 184 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From an untitled 75-page sketchbook
Credit Line
Gift of the Stiles E. Tuttle Memorial Trust, the Marion Tuttle Colwill Charitable Trust, and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland, in Memory of Marion Tuttle Colwill
Object Number
2008.277.74
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, by purchase, 2007; Christie's London, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, lot 44; private collection; Sotheby's, London, July 19, 1979, lot 36; Mrs. P. Howard (descendant of the artist)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World," 6 October 2013-20 January 2014.
