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 Jr., 1793

Drawing. Date: 1793. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm). Medium: pen and black ink over graphite. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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) MET DP804222