Anthony's Oration / The Death Of Julius Caesar, Circa 1768
Signed and titled "Anthony's Oration / Death of Jul: Caesar" along the bottom edgeSheet 8.7 x 13.4 in - 22 x 34 cm
drawn in 1768
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "International Art" held on Thu, Dec 6, 2018.
Lot 808
Lot 808
Estimate: CAD $3,000 - $5,000
Realised: CAD $26,400
Realised: CAD $26,400
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Christopher Powney, Dealer in Drawings, London, UK;
From whom purchased by the Private Collection, Hamilton, Ontario in 1981
Exhibitions:
"John Flaxman", 10 March - 9 April, 1976, Exhibition Presented by Christopher Powney and Gallery, London, "Designs for Sculpture and Metal Work", Cat. No. 40, illustrated;
Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, "John Flaxman", 1979, Cat. No. 6, illustrated
Notes:
In the catalogue for the below exhibition, "Designs for Sculpture and Metal Work", a note accompanying entry no. 40 states the following:
"This is a design for a lost plaque entitled 'Death of Julius Caesar' which was exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts in 1768 (No. 147) when Flaxman was thirteen years old. The figure in the right foreground is certainly a self portrait. Earlier drawings by Flaxman are recorded but this is the earliest surviving example".
Christopher Powney, Dealer in Drawings, London, UK;
From whom purchased by the Private Collection, Hamilton, Ontario in 1981
Exhibitions:
"John Flaxman", 10 March - 9 April, 1976, Exhibition Presented by Christopher Powney and Gallery, London, "Designs for Sculpture and Metal Work", Cat. No. 40, illustrated;
Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, "John Flaxman", 1979, Cat. No. 6, illustrated
Notes:
In the catalogue for the below exhibition, "Designs for Sculpture and Metal Work", a note accompanying entry no. 40 states the following:
"This is a design for a lost plaque entitled 'Death of Julius Caesar' which was exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts in 1768 (No. 147) when Flaxman was thirteen years old. The figure in the right foreground is certainly a self portrait. Earlier drawings by Flaxman are recorded but this is the earliest surviving example".
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.
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