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Ulysses departing for Ithaca with Penelope

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)

(printer)

Title

Ulysses departing for Ithaca with Penelope

Date of Production

1805

Medium

Engraving, black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4274.35

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 34.; lower edge of image, black ink: Icarius Father of Penelope. Penelope. Ulysses; lower centre margin, black ink: ULYSSES DEPARTING FROM LACEDAEMON FOR ITHACA, / WITH HIS BRIDE PENELOPE, HER FATHER ICARIUS / FOLLOWED THE CAR INTREATING HIS DAUGHTER NOT / TO LEAVE HIM, ULYSSES OFFERED HER THE CHOICE OF / RETURNING WITH HER FATHER OR GOING WITH HIM, SHE / ANSWERED NOTHING BUT COVERED HER FACE WITH HER VEIL. / Pausanias in Laconia.; 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: 814/39(15)

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

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