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Nausicaa Throwing the Ball

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)

(printer)

Title

Nausicaa Throwing the Ball

Date of Production

1805

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4274.11

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sheet, Recto: upper left corner, black ink: plate 10; upper centre margin, black ink: NAUSICAA THROWING THE BALL.; upper right corner, black ink: 6.115; lower centre margin, black ink: FORTH FROM HER SNOWY HAND NAUSICAA THREW, / THE VARIOUS BALL, THE BALL ERRONEOUS FLEW. / Pope's Homer's Odyfsey B.6. Line 133.; lower right corner of image, black ink: Parker sc. Sheet, Recto: lower centre margin, black print: J. FLAXMAN; lower centre margin, blue ink pen: Odyssey.; upper left margin, pencil: 816/72(3)

Stamp: Sheet, Verso: upper left corner, black ink stamp: WITT / LIBRARY

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