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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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