Private collection
Oedipus before the Temple of Furies at Colonus
- Terracotta
- 19 × 25 ½ inches · 480 × 650 mm
- Signed and dated: ‘W Tyler Excu. 1765’
Collections
- Cyril Humphris, London;
- Humphris sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 January 1995, lot 74, as Diogenes;
- English private collection, to 2023;
- Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, 4th July, 2023, lot 52 as Diogenes;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Exhibitions
- Possibly London, Society of Artists, 1765, ‘a monumental medallion; a model’, no.181.
Literature
- Ingrid Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 1269, no. 72, as Diogenes.