The Hours
Samuel Shelley
ca. 1800 · Pen and brown ink · Drawings and Prints
The three women in this sketch echo the Graces (nude females in Greek and Roman art often shown holding hands in a circle). Inscriptions on this sheet indicate that Shelley intended the figures here to represent the past, present and future, and he likely made the work as he prepared a minature for the Academy exhibition of 1801 where the figures appear clothed (see MMA 26.168.71).
- Artist
- Samuel Shelley
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of A.C. Detwiler, 1930
