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Tablet for Chimney Piece: Apollo with Virgil and Homer at left, Tasso and Milton at Right

Office of Robert Adam
1728-1792

Tablet for Chimney Piece: Apollo with Virgil and Homer at left, Tasso and Milton at Right

11 3/16 x 28 5/8 inches (284 x 728 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in black ink.
1958.23:4

Gift of Mr. Junius S. and Mr. Henry S. Morgan, 1958.

Notes
Watermark: fragment of a fleur-de-lis inside shield, surmounted by a crown and countermark: PORTAL.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center, "Tablet for the Library Chimney Piece Markt E." Inscribed on verso, "Il Trionfo d'Apolo, ̣li quatro Poeti Epichi alla drita d'Apolo si vede Homero coronato con Diadema, il putino a canto tiene li simboli del Odissea e del Iliade, si oppogia allo scudo d'Achile, e tiene / ginocchio sopra uno prora di nave, Virgilio chiamate dalli antiche il ligno di Mantua, si dinstingue per il ramo d'allora alla sinistra d'Apolo, si vede il Tasso che tiene sopra un volume una corona' / Muralle, il putino porta li simboli della Gerusaleme leberata, ed indica la guerra della Crocciata / Viene in Squito Milton che tiene una Corona d'alloro alla mano, l'angelo che le segue porta il simboli del Poemo serito del detto, dal Paradiso perduto".
Associated names
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 110-111.
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