Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi; Socrates, Alcibiades and Aspasia; Zeus and the Maidens of Crotone

A sheet of three framed pen and brown ink drawings with brown wash, stacked vertically with handwritten inscriptions below the upper two. The top scene shows a standing figure beside a seated woman at a table; the middle shows a group of draped figures gathered around a table; the bottom, in an octagonal frame, shows a cluster of figures around a central embrace.

Artist

Felice Giani

Date

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1992 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum