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Object Type: print
Museum number: W,3.22
Description: Ulysses and Telemachus attacking and slaying the suitors, after Primaticcio's fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysse at Fontainebleau Engraving
Producer name: After: Francesco Primaticcio; Published by: Maarten Peeters (Petri)
School/style: French; Italian
Production date: 1530-1560
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 235 millimetres; Width: 320 millimetres (trimmed)
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Curator's comments: See Sylvie Beguin and others, 'La Galerie d'Ulysse à Fontainebleau', Paris 1985, pp.287-8. This engraving has in the past been attributed to Philips Galle, but is not included by Manfred Sellinck in the New Hollstein catalogue of his work. For a state before Petri's address, see W,3.21.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology
Associated names: Representation of: Odysseus/Ulysses; Representation of: Telemachus
Associated places: Associated with: Château de Fontainebleau
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval blindstamp and initials HS)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,3.22

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