Chessmen (32)

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

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

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

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

1789 · Pen and black and gray ink, graphite

Hector Chiding Paris

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

Polyphemus Begging Ulysses for More Wine

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