Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)

1793

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)
Collection no.: 18.141.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

John Flaxman. Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293). John Flaxman; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293) — John Flaxman. 1793.

Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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