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drawing
;
album
Object Type
drawing
album
Museum number
1885,0509.1927
Description
Pallas Athena appearing to Ulysses; Athena appearing to Ulysses out of the fog, Ulysses lying on the ground before her; with a drawn border; from an album of 51 leaves depicting scenes from Homer's 'Odyssey' Pen and grey, brown and black ink with brown wash, with grey wash on the borders
Producer name
Drawn by:
Tako Hajo Jelgersma
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1717-1795
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
247 millimetres
Width:
319 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is the twenty-eighth drawing of an album of 51 leaves with numbered drawings pasted in, for comment see 1885,0509.1900.
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
Associated names
Illustration to:
Homer
Representation of:
Odysseus/Ulysses
Representation of:
Athena/Minerva
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Odyssey
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edward Cheney
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(Sotheby's, 5.v.1885/part of lot 1028 as 'A Series of Dutch Drawings illustrating Homer's Odyssy, 51 in number. Retzsch's Illustrations of Shakespeare; and a volume of Woodcuts after designs by Millais., 3' bt. Thibadeau £5-0-0)
Purchased through:
Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date
1885
Acquisition notes
There is an armorial ex-libris on the inside front cover: "FATO PRUDENTIA MAJOR/EDWARD CHENEY".
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1885,0509.1927