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Richard Westall: The Sword of Damocles  wikidata:Q115185485 reasonator:Q115185485
Artist
Richard Westall  (1765–1836)  wikidata:Q3109174
 
Richard Westall
Description English drawer, watercolorist, printmaker and painter
Date of birth/death 2 January 1765 Edit this at Wikidata 4 December 1836 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Norwich, England London
Work period 1784–1836
Work location
London (1779–1826) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3109174
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English: The Sword of Damocles
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1812 (painting), 2008-01-20 (photograph)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 130 × 103 × 8.3 cm (51.1 × 40.5 × 3.2 in)
institution QS:P195,Q4674272
Accession number
79.10.1
Source/Photographer own photograph of painting, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 public-domain (old), copyright expired due to date of death of author (artist). No limits on reproduction are claimed by the museum for this painting--photography allowed.
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Dionysius I draws Damocles's attention to the sword hanging above him, painting by Richard Westall.

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