print
- Museum number
- 1929,1112.2.15
- Description
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Mercury ordering Calypso to allow Odysseus to depart; classical landscape with the couple on a bed at centre, Mercury on a cloud in top right speaking to Calypso, while Odysseus lies in her lap, Cupid dressed in Odysseus's armour walking to the right in right foreground, a temple in background. c.1670
Etching
- Production date
- 1670 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 353 millimetres
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Width: 478 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A plate in an edition of the 'Opus Elegantissimum', published by Valk. For comment on the album see 1929,1112.2.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from L.W.Jones Esq, not a dealer but a member of the public
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,1112.2.15
