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Penelope carrying the Bow of Ulysses to the Suitors

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)

(printer)

Title

Penelope carrying the Bow of Ulysses to the Suitors

Date of Production

1805

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 31.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4274.31

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












wreathed


Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Sheet, Recto: upper left corner, black ink: plate 30; upper centre margin, black ink: PENELOPE CARRYING THE BOW OF ULYSSES TO THE SUITORS.; upper right corner, black ink: 21.59; lower centre margin, black ink: TO THE PROUD SUITORS BEARS IN PENSIVE STATE / TH' UNBENDED BOW, AND ARROWS WING'D WITH FATE. / Pope's Homers Odyfsey B.21. Line 61.; lower right corner of image, black ink: Neagle sc Sheet, Recto: lower centre margin, black print: J. FLAXMAN; lower centre margin, blue ink pen: Odyssey; upper left margin, pencil: 814/39(19)

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

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