print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1900,1231.627
- Description
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A terrace in a palace, with Phaedra, armed with a sword, trying to hold back Hippolytus, who walks away, to right; Phaedra's nurse, Oenone, supports her whilst looking to the left; after Girodet; illustration to 'Phèdre', Act II scene V; illustration to the second edition of 'Oeuvres complètes de Jean Racine' (Paris by Didot: 1816). c.1816
Etching
- Production date
- 1816 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is from the octavo edition (1816); for the folio edition (1801-1805) see 1932,0426.46
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Phèdre
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Associated Title: Oeuvres complètes de Jean Racine (1798-1805)
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,1231.627