Mercury's Message to Calypso
Maker
(artist)
1755-1826
(engraver)
(printer)
1755-1826
(engraver)
(printer)
Title
Mercury's Message to Calypso
Date of Production
1805
Medium
Engraving, black ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 31.7 cm
Width: 31.7 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4274.9
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 8; upper centre margin, black ink: MERCURY'S MESSAGE TO CALYPSO.; upper right corner, black ink: 5.90.; lower centre margin, black ink: GOD OF THE GOLDEN WAND! ON WHAT BEHEST, / ARRIV'ST THOU HERE, AND UNEXPECTED GUEST. / Pope's Homers Odyfsey B.5. Line 111.; 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: 816/72(5)
Stamp: Sheet, Verso: upper left corner, black ink stamp: WITT / LIBRARY
Stamp: Sheet, Verso: upper left corner, black ink stamp: WITT / LIBRARY
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