print
- Museum number
- 1865,1111.213
- Title
- Series: Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis
- Description
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Odysseus allured by the sirens (Odyssey 12:154); to the right, Odysseus is bound to his ship's mast in order to resist the call of the sirens, who stand on the banks of their island in the left background; his sailors ferociously row the ship, elaborately decorated with sculpted reliefs, away from the island, which is littered with bones; after Annibale Carracci. c.1680s
Etching with some engraving
- Production date
- 1670-1692
- Dimensions
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Height: 277 millimetres
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Width: 507 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One plate of the series, after the fresco by Carracci executed for the Camerino Farnese; See Evelina Borea and others, 'Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori', École française de Rome, 1986, p.74 and foll.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Odyssey
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,1111.213
