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Jupiter Sends Iris to Bid Hector Retire From the Fight

Maker

(artist)
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

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)

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