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Ulysses Terrified by the Ghosts

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)

(printer)

Title

Ulysses Terrified by the Ghosts

Date of Production

1805

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4274.18

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sheet, Recto: upper left corner, black ink: plate 17; upper centre margin, black ink: ULYSSES TERREFIED BY THE GHOSTS.; upper right corner, black ink: 11; lower centre margin, black ink: BUT SWARMS OF SPECTRES ROSE FROM DEEPEST HELL, / WITH BLOODLESS VISAGE, AND WITH HIDEOUS YELL, / THEY SCREAM, THEY SHRIEK; SAD GROANS AND DISMAL SOUNDS / STUN MY SCAR'D EARS, AND PIERCE HELL'S UTMOST BOUNDS. / Popes Homers Odyfsey B.11. Line 779.; lower right corner of image, black ink: Parker sc. Sheet, Recto: lower centre margin, black print: J. FLAXMAN; upper left margin, pencil: 814/42(31)

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

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