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Record drawing of a man's head in profile with long hair and wearing a plumed parade helmet. It is set on an oval background with the inscription Alexander in Greek.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/140
Purpose
Record drawing of a man's head in profile with long hair and wearing a plumed parade helmet. It is set on an oval background with the inscription Alexander in Greek.
Aspect
Detail
Inscribed
Letteref in chalk within the compositionA?E?AN?PO?.
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown chalk with white heightening on blue paper
154 x 118
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Notes
The compositions in Adam vol.26/138-40 and 142 are all part of a set of drawings on blue paper, which are probably copies after antique gems or cameos. The fanciful head of Alexander the Great in this drawing is the companion to that of the Empress Livia in Adam vol.26/142.
Level
Drawing
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