print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Hh,13.3.101
- Description
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From a ruin at Thessalonica, called the Incantada: figure of a young man wearing a conical hat with a cloak draped around his neck and over left arm, with an animal with large curved horns kneeling beside him; used as an illustration to Stuart and Revett's "The Antiquities of Athens" volume III (London, 1794); chapter 9, plate VIII.
Etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 336 millimetres
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Width: 181 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Stuart tentatively identifies many of the figures on the ruin with characters from plays by Euripides. He suggests this might be Telephus.
See Hh,13.3.94
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Antiquities of Athens
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,13.3.101