A Gentle and Most Glowing Image, Noble Glaucus
Date1893
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk, gouache, and graphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 11 × 8 in. (27.9 × 20.3 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-326
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing illustrates a scene from Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii. The subject had some currency at the time Sloan drew this; the Philadelphia Academy of Music was advertising for a production of John Philip Sousa's latest original composition, a suite inspired by Lytton's book.
