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Irwin, <EM>John Flaxman, 1755-1826: sculptor, illustrator, designer</EM>, (London: Studio Vista, 1979).","citation":"David G. Irwin, <EM>John Flaxman, 1755-1826: sculptor, illustrator, designer</EM>, (London: Studio Vista, 1979)., p. 163; pl. 229","date":1979,"id":5531,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/6112551"},{"boilertext":"Elizabeth Bryding Adams, <EM>The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama</EM>, (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1992).","citation":"Elizabeth Bryding Adams, <EM>The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama</EM>, (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1992)., p. 131 (illus. and discussed)","date":1992,"id":5532,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/25369718"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1700-1800","dateend":1799,"depicted":[],"titles":[],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1948-1681","inscribed":"in graphite on arch: BRITIAN | BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE | TRIUMPHANT\r\nin graphit at bottom, center: Triumphal Arch\r\n","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<SPAN lang=EN>\r\n<P dir=ltr align=left>In 1799, a competition was held to design a memorial for London’s Greenwich Hill, to honor Lord Nelson’s historic defeat of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile. The neoclassical sculptor John Flaxman submitted two fanciful proposals inspired by colossal monuments of antiquity. In the concept depicted here, Flaxman envisioned a towering triumphal arch, while his alternate idea called for a two-hundred-foot-tall figure of Britannia, represented as the goddess Athena. Ultimately, plans to build a monument at Greenwich were abandoned, due to a lack of available funds as the war with France dragged on.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"K4-5 Rotation June 2018"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<P>Holoway, London.;</P>\r\n<P>Detached from album and catalogued separately.&nbsp; Description of album, no longer extant: Marbled paper-bound boards, red cloth spine and corners; H. .505 m. W. .338 m. Contained 119 leaves (first 117 numbered in pencil upper right corner) to which drawings attached on right sides only.&nbsp; Pencil notes as to provenance in Platt’s hand after page 63. </P>\r\n<P><BR>Note by Platt inside front cover: Pages 1-63 (up to9 48-1739) bought in this book from Holoway, London, 1926, for $60.&nbsp; Another label, laid in, handwritten: in ink, By John Flaxman R.A. / from Miss Denman’s Sale / April 10, 1862 (Flaxman estate, Christie’s, London); in pencil, Bought at Christie’s May 9, 1910, lot 11 / R.G.(?)N.;<BR></P>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1799,"sortnumber":"1948 1681x","published_date":"2026-02-11 07:55:49.628773","objectid":7116,"dimensions":"30 x 48.2 cm (11 13/16 x 19 in.)","on_view":false}