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| John Flaxman Pastoral Apollo 1825 marble statue National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| John Flaxman The Fury of Athamas (scene after Ovid) ca. 1790-94 marble statue group National Trust, Ickworth House, Suffolk |
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| John Flaxman Self Portrait 1778 terracotta relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| John Flaxman Self Portrait ca. 1779 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Flaxman Self Portrait, age 24 1779 drawing with watercolor University College London Art Museum |
Flaxman
We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone,
Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought,
and in the forms of gods and heroes wrought
Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone –
A higher charm than modern culture won
With all the wealth of metaphysic lore,
Gifted to analyze, dissect, explore.
A many-colored light flows from one sun;
Art, 'neath its beams, a motley thread has spun;
The prism modifies the perfect day;
But thou hast known such mediums to shun,
And cast once more on life a pure, white ray.
Absorbed in the creations of thy mind,
Forgetting daily self, my truest self I find.
– Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
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| John Flaxman Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar modelled, 1775 produced in jasperware by Wedgwood, ca. 1790 stoneware plaque Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| John Flaxman The Farnese Hercules modelled, 1776 produced in jasperware by Wedgwood, ca. 1777-80 stoneware plaque Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| John Flaxman A Soul appearing before the Judges of Hades before 1826 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| John Flaxman Ascension of a Soul before 1826 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| John Flaxman Two Struggling Figures (probably draft illustration for Paradise Lost) ca. 1790-95 drawing British Museum |
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| John Flaxman Thou Shalt Not Murder before 1826 drawing University College London Art Museum |
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| John Flaxman Achilles and Patroclus (illustration for Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad) ca. 1790-93 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Flaxman Funeral of Hector (illustration for Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad) 1805 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| John Flaxman Seated Youth with Pan-Pipes 1824 terracotta statuette Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| John Flaxman A Child (said to be artist's four-year-old sister Mary Ann) 1772 wax relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |