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Thetis entreating Jupiter to honor Achilles

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

(engraver)
1757-1827

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Title

Thetis entreating Jupiter to honor Achilles

Date of Production

1.3.1805

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 31.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4341.4

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















astology






Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin left & recto : : Plate 5. //

Inscription: ininscription : printed : upper margin right & recto : : 1.402 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin centre & recto : : THETIS ENTREATING JUPITER TO HONOR ACHILLES. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : THUS THETIS SPOKE BUT JOVE IN SILENCE HELD / THE SACRED COUNCIL OF HIS BREAST CONCEAL'D. / Pope's Homers Iliad B.I.Liue 662. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right & recto : : Blake sculp. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower margin centre & recto : later Witt inscription : J. FLAXMAN //

Inscription: inscription : manuscript pen and ink : lower margin centre & recto : later Witt inscription : Iliad //

Inscription: inscription : stamp : centre right & verso : : WITT / LIBRARY //

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