print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.615-616
- Title
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Object: Cupid in the Island of Calypso attracting the attention of Telemachus
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Object: The Adventures of Telemachus, from the French of M Fenelon, Translated by Dr Hawkesworth
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: Telemachus sitting on a rock under flowering branches, looking to left at three women, while the infant Cupid sits on his knee, arms around his neck.
titlepage to right: with a vignette of the shepherd Telemachus on a hill-top, startled by Termosiris, a priest playing a lyre with a lion lying beside him to right. 1819
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Adventures of Telemachus
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.615-616
