[Count Ugolino and his children in the dungeon] [art original]

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Title: [Count Ugolino and his children in the dungeon] [art original]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1773]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Dante's 'Divine Comedy' showing Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico (c. 1220-1289), an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander and his sons and grandchildren imprisoned in a dungeon. After Reynolds
Description: Title supplied by cataloger, from that of the original painting by Reynolds.
Signed by the artist in lower left corner.
Drawn after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773 and is currently in the National Trust Collection at Knole, Kent (accession no.: 129934).
Provenance: Purchased from Abbott and Holder, August 2020.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 27.9 x 38 cm, matted to 45 x 54 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings
Watercolors
Material: pen and ink and watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Italian.
Subject (Name): Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289,
Subject (Topic): Capture & imprisonment
Dungeons
Political prisoners
Children
Subjects: Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico, -1289
Capture & imprisonment
Dungeons
Political prisoners > Italian
Children

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas Rowlandson, Count Ugolino and his Children in the Dungeon. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.