Drawing for Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

John Flaxman

Caption

John Flaxman (British, 1755–1826). Drawing for Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Drawing in pencil and pen on wove paper, 6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles, 55.9.29.

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Drawing for Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

Medium

Drawing in pencil and pen on wove paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "J, Flaxman June 1792" lower left in ink

Markings

"Then they took him up, and carried him through the air to the door that I saw in the side of the hill and put him in there-- Pilgrim's Progress"

Credit Line

Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles

Accession Number

55.9.29

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