Esdaile, Katharine A.: The life and works of Louis François Roubiliac (London: Oxford University Press, 1928)

132 ROUBILIAC’S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
logue.1 The interest of these little works, as of others of the class in the Sale
Catalogue of 1762, lies in the translation of classical subjects into the artistic
idiom of the eighteenth century.

1 The Ganymede does not occur in the first
edition of the Catalogue; the Prometheus is de-
scribed on p. 3 of Morris’s Handbook to the Exhibi-
tion and not in the official Catalogue. Neither
can now be traced, and the latter is described in
the later catalogues as ‘ School of Bernini Mr.
Lawrence Haward has been good enough to
inform me that the ‘ Boy and Eagle as Waring

described the Ganymede, was,like the Prometheus,
a marble. The whole matter is very obscure,
and repeated inquiries have elicited no further
light on the subject. One can only say that the
existing Hercules, like the lost Rape of Lucretia,
proves that such subjects were congenial to Roubi-
liac, and confirms the attribution to him of the
Chelsea Ganymede.

Facsimile of part of the agreement for the Lynn Monument. (See p. 153.)