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http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object
Human-Made Object
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painting
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religious and mythological subject
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literary theme
300033618
Painting
The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies
The ghost of Clytemnestra awaking the furies. Vide the Furies of Æschylus.
[1782, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "J[...] Downman | pinxit 1781"
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1981.25.243
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23733090
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
20 x 25 1/2 inches (50.8 x 64.8 cm)
height
cm
50.8
width
cm
64.8
750
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production
John Downman, 1750–1824, British
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97017446
https://viaf.org/viaf/17497318
John Downman
John Dowman
Downman John, 1750–1824
John Downman, 1750–1824
John Downman, 1750–1824
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British
1750
1824
male
300025103
Artist
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draftsman (artist)
genre painter
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portrait painter
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painter
1781
1781
1781
22
18th century
Oil on panel
300014657
panel (wood)
300015050
oil paint
300054216
painting (technique)
Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination (Tate Britain, 2006-02-15 - 2006-05-01)
222
300054766
exhibition
Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
Yale Center for British Art
Tate Britain
ycba_actor_1284
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The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery
Tate Britain
0
0
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Borrower
2006-02-15 - 2006-05-01
2006-02-15
2006-05-01
Tate Britain
ycba_actor_1284
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500266827
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Tate Britain
London
7011781
London
750
583000
N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
13422488
323
300054686
publication event
Malcolm Cormack, ^Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 88-89, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Malcolm Cormack
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Cormack Malcolm
300025492
Author
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
1985
1985
1985
New Haven, CT
750
9338846
GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)
429024728
1479
300054686
publication event
Angus Trumble, ^The Finger : A Handbook, ^, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, p. 156, GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Angus Trumble
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Trumble Angus
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Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ycba_actor_9523
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
300025574
Publisher
2010
2010
2010
New York
750
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
300203630
Owner
1981
1981
1981
300138913
gift
John Downman was a pupil of Benjamin West and entered the Royal Academy (RA) Schools in 1769. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1770, but was not elected an associate of the RA until 1795 and never achieved full membership. Primarily a portraitist, he occasionally showed subject pictures drawn from history, literature, mythology, and the theater. The subject of this painting is from The Eumenides, the final play in the Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus. The ghost of Clytemnestra, who had been slain by her son Orestes after she murdered his father Agamemnon, is seen here awakening the Furies, or spirits of punishment, to pursue her son in vengeance. The artist exhibited the painting in 1782 at the RA, where it was seen by Horace Walpole, who called it “distracted & disgusting,” perhaps in part due to the figures’ exaggerated, almost caricatural, features.
Accompanying RA 250 label text:
J. Downman
No. 132, The ghost of Clytemnestra awaking the furies. Vide the Furies of Æschylus
Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1782, in the Great Room of Somerset House
“Another proof how artists sometimes loose [sic] themselves, and mistake their talents, we have, in two small pictures near No. 119, and No. 132, from Sophocles, and Aeschylus, but these are rocks above water, and warnings rather than examples. Nor is it easy to believe, that the finest sketches in the exhibition, No. 368, and 369, &c. and the vilest history, should come from the same hand, yet both are marked J. Downman.”
(Morning Chronicle, May 9, 1782)
--- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
750
300048722
Gallery label
2016
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literary theme
ycba_term_2037004
ghost
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religious and mythological subject
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ycba_term_525
light
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ycba_term_1925
white (color)
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women
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mask (costume)
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snake
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serpent
Furies, Dirae (Erinyes), Eumenides; 'Furie' (Ripa)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes
ycba_term_2052841
Furies, Dirae (Erinyes), Eumenides; 'Furie' (Ripa)
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae (or sometimes Argos) in ancient Greek legend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytemnestra
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Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae (or sometimes Argos) in ancient Greek legend
Furies
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Furies
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 88-89, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
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related to
Angus Trumble, The Finger : A Handbook, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, p. 156, GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)
9338846
GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)
429024728
1479
related to
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
750
300133025
Item
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:750
oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:750
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/750
https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/750
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art