Drawing or tracing of the Sosibios Vase

Keats gained his knowledge of classical art from visits to the British Museum (where in 1816 Haydon showed him the Elgin Marbles) and from engravings. This appears to be a careful freehand drawing by Keats of the Sosibios Vase in the Louvre, Paris, based upon several engravings published at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The inscription is not in Keats’s hand, but his friend Charles Wentworth Dilke, who owned the drawing, is the authority for attributing it to the poet.

Keats, John, 1795-1821 (author)

ca. 1816

1 drawing

drawing

paper

drawings

Part of the Sir Charles Dilke bequest, 1911.

KSH

REL-005