print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.3182
- Title
- Series: British Classics
- Description
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Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus in the Underworld: In the foreground, Odysseus crouching with a dagger at the mouth of a cave turns back towards the ghost of Tiresias, the ghost of Anticleia beside him, who points down to the underworld; the fallen soldiers of Troy lie behind him, and figures swirl upwards in the background; after a painting by Fuseli in a private collection, illustration to Sharpe's 'British Classics', published in a volume of the Tatler, vol. 3, no.152, from Sharpe's 'British Classics'; lettered state with architectural frame above and below. 1804
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres
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Width: 120 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1864,1210.200 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Odyssey (XI, 90-98 (cited in the Tatler, Vol. 3, No. 152))
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.3182