print
- Museum number
- 1873,0809.241
- Title
- Object: The anger of Achilles for the loss of Briseis
- Description
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Achilles seated at left raising his hand in anger upon seeing his lover, the former slave, Briseis being led away by Agamemnon, after Hamilton. c. 1769
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1769 (c. Plate made)
- Dimensions
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Height: 455 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 620 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- As pointed out in an email from Martin Hopkinson (5/1/08) the print was advertised in the Public Advertiser Saturday 15 December 1770 for 10s 6d. Sold by Boydell; Ryland and Bryer; and all the Printsellers. As also by Wilson and Nicoll, Booksellers, in the Strand, and J. Murray, Bookseller at no 32 Fleet - Street.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0809.241