drawing
- Museum number
- 1859,0312.108
- Description
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Ulysses having slain the Suitors, spares Phemius, illustration to Homer's 'Odyssey', book 22; Ulysses, over whom floats Pallas Athene holding spear and aegis, stands over the slain body of a suitor and looks down, sword in hand, on the bard Phemius, who prostrates himself on the steps before him, his lyre leaning against a pillar r. 1796
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 506 millimetres
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Width: 353 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1969, BM, 'Royal Academy Draughtsmen 1769-1969', no.228
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Odyssey
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0312.108
