Artworks · John Flaxman, English

Chessmen (32)

1800 · Jasperware

Height (king): 4 in. (10.2 cm); Height (pawn): 2 in. (5.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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)

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 9 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (24.1 x 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus

1789 · Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Primary support: 16.1 × 29.2 cm (6 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 23.3 × 35.7 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Illustration for "Seven Chiefs Against Thebes" (recto); Studies of Figures (verso)

1789 · Pen and black and gray ink, graphite

sheet: 8 x 15 7/8 in. (20.3 x 40.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vase with cover

1777 · Jasperware

Height (wt. confirmed): 17 7/8 in., 14 lb. (45.4 cm, 6.4 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hector Chiding Paris

1775 · Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper

21 × 27.4 cm (8 5/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Athena and the Winds

1775 · Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper

21.1 × 29.5 cm (8 5/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Design for a Frieze, after a Roman Sarcophagus: The First Visit of Bacchus to Ariadne

1775 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, on gray paper

9-13/16 x 25-3/8 in. (24.9 x 64.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

1775 · Red chalk on cream laid paper

30.6 × 17.5 cm (12 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Council of the Gods

1775 · Pen and gray ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

20.9 × 37.1 cm (8 1/4 × 14 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sheet of studies with female figure kneeling and embracing standing figure

1775 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite

Overall: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16in. (17.7 x 11cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minerva and Achilles

1775 · Pen and gray and brown ink, over graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper

21.2 × 33.7 cm (8 3/8 × 13 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Polyphemus Begging Ulysses for More Wine

1775 · Pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

20.8 × 26.3 cm (8 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago