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Mercury conducting the souls of the suitors to the Infernal Regions

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)

(printer)

Title

Mercury conducting the souls of the suitors to the Infernal Regions

Date of Production

1805

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4274.34

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 33; upper centre margin, black ink: MERCURY CONDUCTING THE SOULS OF THE SUITORS TO THE EINFERNAL REGIONS.; upper right corner, black ink: 24.12; lower centre margin, black ink: CYLLENIUS NOW TO PLUTO'S DREARY REIGN / CONVEYS THE DEAD. A LAMENTABLE TRAIN. / Popes Homers Odyfsey B.24. Line 1.; 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: 814/38(10)

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

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