Title: 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)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1793
Artist:  John Flaxman 
Artist bio: British, York 1755–1826 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men