Agathon at Breakfast, Tempted by a Slave Girl, from "Geschichte des Agathon"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.491.A
People: Johann Heinrich Meil, German (1730 - 1820)
Title: Agathon at Breakfast, Tempted by a Slave Girl, from "Geschichte des Agathon"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1772
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/293948

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash, with some incising, on cream antique laid paper, verso covered with red chalk

Dimensions

9.7 x 5 cm (3 13/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: black ink, upper right: 7
inscription: bottom, black ink: Agathon I.B. (8. Cap. p. 74.
watermark: I C [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Ferdinand Ebner, Augsbourg. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.491.A
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary: Preparatory drawing for Meil's "Zwölf Kupfer zur Wielandischen Geschichte des Agathon," by Christoph Martin Wieland, Göttingen, 1772

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