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Title: Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)
Artist:
John Flaxman (British, York 1755–1826 London)
Date: 1793
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918
Object Number: 18.141.3
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