Prism Type:stretched canvas Oxford Almanack for 1799

Oxford Almanack for 1799

This monochrome oil-sketch came at a relatively late stage of preparation and is a dynamic study of light and shadow

Different identifications have been proposed for the aristocratic sitter

The panel painted for a luxurious domestic setting

Together with A 565

Prism Type:stretched canvas Oxford Almanack for 1799King List prism; Sumerian, written in cuneiform script, runs in two columns on each of the four sides of the prism list of the Sumerian and Akkadian rulers from 'before the Flood' and then from about 3200 1800 BC to King Sin magir of Isin (1827 1817 BC); the text gives the most extensive list of rulers from sourther Iraq of the period and evokes the Biblical Flood story as well as the geneaologies in Genesis 5 and 11