print
- Museum number
- 2015,5009.222
- Description
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Engraving of side B of black figure amphora, depicting a combat between Hektor and Achilles over fallen warrior.
Engraving, hand-coloured with black wash, with some graphite.
- Production date
- 1824 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This print was among a collection of around 200 works on paper in the Department of Greece and Rome by the architects Samuel Angell and William Harris, relating to their trip and excavations on Sicily in 1822-1823. For more information see 2015,5009.1
For the vase see:
- Beazley Archive, vase number 7661. Formerly in the Louvre (CA4201), now in Musée Fabregat, Beziers (1085) http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/recordDetails.asp?recordCount=1&start=0
- Hyatt, S. (ed.), The Greek Vase (New York, 1981): FIG.80 (A)
- Landes, C., and Laurens, A-F. et al. (eds.), Les vases a memoire, les collections de ceramique Greque dans le midi de la France (Montpellier, 1988): 144, NO.92 (A, B)
- Millingen, J., Ancient Unedited Monuments, Painted Greek Vases (London, 1822): PL.5 (A)
- Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phanomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 98, FIG.50 (DRAWING OF B)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2015,5009.222