print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.672-673
- Title
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Object: with secret pleasure each fond Parent smil'd
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Object: The Iliad of Homer
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: Hector and Andromache standing to right, he holding out his hand to take their son Astyanax from his nurse.
titlepage to right: with a vignette showing Morpheus lying on a couch, with Minerva in a cloud of light and three winged spirits flying above. 1817
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 144 millimetres
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Width: 167 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Iliad
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.672-673
