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Artists›Sir James Thornhill, English

Sir James Thornhill, English

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Artworks (11)

Allegory of Winter

1800 · Marble

48.3 × 38.1 cm (19 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory of Spring

1800 · Marble

48.3 × 38.1 cm (19 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Staircase Decoration, Hanbury Hall, Worchestershire: Achilles Revealing his Identity in the Palace of Lycomedes

1710 · Pen and brown ink, brush and wash on tan laid paper, lined, mounted

40.5 × 20 cm (15 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for a Ceiling with an Allegorical Subject

1708 · Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over graphite Verso: graphite

sheet: 10 x 3 3/4 in. (25.4 x 9.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chariot of Apollo

1700 · Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over traces of graphite

sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in. (16.4 x 24.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Baptism of Christ in an Architectural Setting

1700 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over slight traces of black chalk

sheet: 14 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (36.8 x 19.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI

1597 · Oil on panel

63 × 78 cm (24 3/4 × 30 11/16 in.); Framed: 79.6 × 94.3 × 8.9 cm (31 3/8 × 37 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Betrayal of Christ

1490 · Alabaster, with polychromy and gilding

48.3 × 30.5 cm (19 × 12 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Adoration of the Magi

1415 · Alabaster with polychromy and gilding

42.6 × 29.2 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Resurrection

1400 · Alabaster, traces of polychromy

49.5 × 24.1 cm (19 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Coronation of the Virgin

1400 · Alabaster with polychromy and gilding

40 × 27.3 cm (20 1/2 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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11 published of 11 catalogued · 11 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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The Met
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Smithsonian
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Art Institute of Chicago

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