Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes Artist: Benjamin West (American, active Great Britain, 1738–1820)

1804

American Paintings and Sculpture

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

49 1/2 × 71 3/4 in. (125.73 × 182.25 cm)

Credit Line

John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, LL.B. 1896, M.A. (Hon.) 1929, Fund

Accession Number

1963.49

Geography

Made in London, England

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • Michael Bennett, Clemente Marconi, and Alexandra Sofroniew, Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, ed. Claire L. Lyons, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013), 135, fig. fig. 76.
  • Alan Hirshfeld, Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes (New York: Walker Publishing Co., 2009), unpag., ill.
  • Angus Trumble and Mark Aronson, Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret, ed. Julie Lavorgna, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2008), 39, ill.
  • Mary Jaeger, Archimedes and the Roman Imagination (Anne Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 32.
  • Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986), 175, no. 23, fig. 23.
  • "Recent Gifts and Purchases," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 30, no. 1 (August 1964): 23.
  • Joseph Farington, Windsor Castle. Royal Library, and British Museum, The Diary of Joseph Farington, eds. Kenneth J. Garlick, Angus Macintyre, and Kathryn Cave, 16 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1804).
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

Greek children (people by age group) men women

Signed

Signed l.c. "B. West/1804"

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