Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Punishments of Nero.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00746
Identifier
ark:/88435/sx61dv40d
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 14.1 x 21.1 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A32
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Ancient prison, ten near-nude men chained, etc. in very upper centermfortable positions.
Unsigned.
A slightly more finished version of the same drawing is in the YCBA inscribed 'Spanish Inquisition', <YCBA B1975.3.1> #342 p86 in Baskett&Snelgrove1977, illustrated (the Princeton version is noted p86) which would make it one of a number of anticlerical p.

Discovery Information

Subject
Prisoners in art
Punishment in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8cbe02e1-32bb-4f61-9979-5e31ab46d3c5/manifest