The Odyssey Of Homer Engraved From The Compositions Of Iohn Flaxman R·A· Sculptor, London.
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References
On Flaxman's Homer see Flaxman: la difusion del modelo clasico: Homero, Esquilo, Hesiodo, Dante [exhibition catalogue] (1996); R.N. Essick, Flaxman's illustrations to Homer (1977). On his outline drawings generally see the bibliographic note on Compositions From The Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed By Iohn Flaxman (1795).
On Homeric subjects in art see the bibliographic note on F. Inghirami's Galleria Omerica (1831).
Summary Note
The present edition has six plates more than earlier editions (pl. 1, 3, 10, 11, 15, 34). The work had first been published in 1793 in London, with the engravings by Piroli (The Odyssey Of Homer Engraved By Thomas Piroli From The Compositions Of Iohn Flaxman Sculptor Rome 1793), with 28 numbered plates. A second edition had been published in the same year, but printed from different plates. A third edition had been published in Paris in 1803, with 28 numbered plates.
Twenty-seven of Flaxman's original drawings for the Odyssey are preserved in the Royal Academy.
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Greek poetry - Epics - Epic poetry
Drawings - 19th century - Great Britain - Neoclassical
Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Great Britain - 19th century
Contributors
Homer, Odyssey
James Parker, engraver
Robert Harding Evans, publisher
William Richard Beckford Miller, publisher
John Arch, publisher
Arthur Arch, publisher
Alexander Pope, translator
James Neagle, engraver
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, publisher
John and Arthur Arch, publisher
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The Odyssey of Homer Engraved from The Compositions of Iohn Flaxman R.A. Sculptor, 1 March 1805
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Ulysses Departing from Lacedaemon for Ithaca, 1 March 1805
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