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Object Type
Museum number: W,3.80
Title: Series: Les travaux d'Ulysse
Description: Plate 27: Ulysses' companions stealing the cattle of Helios, with in the left foreground the companions in a ship, one of whom is seen holding a cow's head, on the right Poseidon waiting for a sign from Helios to intervene, beyond at right Lampetia informing Helios, who is standing on hs chariot, and below Ulysses sleeping on an island; after Primaticcio and Niccolò dell' Abbate. c.1633 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden; After: Francesco Primaticcio; After: Niccolò dell'Abbate
School/style
Production date: 1633 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 195 millimetres; Width: 252 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See W,3.55 for comment on series.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Odysseus/Ulysses; Representation of: Poseidon/Neptune; Representation of: Lampetia; Representation of: Helios/Sol
Associated places: Associated with: Château de Fontainebleau
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: W,3.80

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