drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1885,0509.1901
Description: Pallas Athena appearing to Telemachus; Athena seated on a cloud at right, Telemachus standing at centre together with two dogs, at left a view of Penelope's suitors feasting; with a drawn border; from an album of 51 leaves depicting scenes from Homer's 'Odyssey' Pen and grey and brown ink with brown wash, with grey wash on the borders
Producer name: Drawn by: Tako Hajo Jelgersma
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1717-1795
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 319 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the second drawing of an album of 51 leaves with numbered drawings pasted in, for comment see 1885,0509.1900.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology
Associated names: Illustration to: Homer; Representation of: Telemachus; Representation of: Athena/Minerva
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Edward Cheney; Purchased through: Sotheby's (Sotheby's, 5.v.1885/part of lot 1028 as 'A Series of Dutch Drawings illustrating Homer's Odyssey, 51 in number. Retzsch's Illustrations of Shakespeare; and a volume of Woodcuts after designs by Millais., 3' bt. Thibaudeau £5-0-0); Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date: 1885
Acquisition notes: There is an armorial ex-libris on the inside front cover: "FATO PRUDENTIA MAJOR/EDWARD CHENEY".
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1885,0509.1901

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