Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania 1738-1820 Condor)

Adonis is presumably a first compositional sketch for the finished painting in the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, H. von Erffa and A. Staley, loc. cit.
The second drawing may illustrate Genesis 31, vv. 11-12 in which an angel appears to Jacob in a dream and tells him to 'lift up his eyes, and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled and grisled.'

We are grateful to Professor Allen Staley for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.