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Jean Pierre Simon

Circe Going Home towards the Sea Side to Receive Ulysses, 1803

Description

Maker

  • Ostervald the Elder, publisher
  • Rudolph Ackermann, 1764-1834, publisher
  • Jean Pierre Simon, a. 1750-c. 1810, British
  • John Flaxman, 1755 - 1826, English, designer

Title

Circe Going Home towards the Sea Side to Receive Ulysses

Year

1803

Medium

stipple engraving (printing process)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • stipple engraving (printing process)

Supports

  • Heavy weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

29.1 x 42.7 cm (11 3/8 x 16 13/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil inscribed, UL:Buhot/J D Harding ; inscribed in black and red ink on white label in UL:EA/433/RIn Plate--Inscribed, LL:Flaxman del. ; inscribed, LR:J. P. Simon Sculp. ; titled, left side of bottom margin:CIRCE GOING TOWARDS THE SEA SIDE TO /RECEIVE ULYSSES. ; titled in French, right side of bottom margin:CIRCÉ SE REND SUR LE BORD DE LA MER,/ POUR Y RECEVOIR ULISSE. ; inscribed along bottom edge of plate:London Pub: 16. Sep. 1803. by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts .101. Strand.Déposé à la Bibliothèque Nationale, an 12.Et à Paris chez Ostervald, l'ainé, Rue Pelletier, N°. 3.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Hope Brown Russell

Object Number

09.889

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Age of Canova

November 6 - December 15, 1957

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Circe Going Home towards the Sea Side to Receive Ulysses with the accession number of 09.889. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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