Jupiter Sends Iris to Bid Hector Retire From the Fight
Maker
(artist)
ca.1682-1742 (Life dates)
ca.1682-1742 (Life dates)
Title
Jupiter Sends Iris to Bid Hector Retire From the Fight
Date of Production
1720
Medium
Line engraving
Dimensions
Height: 13.8 cm
Width: 7.8 cm
Width: 7.8 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.4612
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
Notes
Frontispiece to Book XI of Alexander Pope's edition of The Iliad, vol. 3 (1720).
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Maker's mark: Recto: lower left, printed in image: E. Kirkall scu.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: The two Armies being engag'd by break of day, Jupiter sends Iris to bid Hector / retire from the Fight, & not return till Agamemnon's wounds had oblig'd / him, to withdraw, from the Field of Battle. / B. 11.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: E. KIRKALL
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, written in black ink below "E.": Elisha
Inscription: Verso: upper left, pencil: 937/3(15)
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed below image: The two Armies being engag'd by break of day, Jupiter sends Iris to bid Hector / retire from the Fight, & not return till Agamemnon's wounds had oblig'd / him, to withdraw, from the Field of Battle. / B. 11.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed: E. KIRKALL
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, written in black ink below "E.": Elisha
Inscription: Verso: upper left, pencil: 937/3(15)
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