John Flaxman
1755-1826
Nestor Offering a Sacrifice to Minerva
8 9/16 x 13 inches (219 x 330 mm)
Pen and black ink on paper, laid down on a secondary support; framing line in graphite.
2003.28
Gift of John M. Thayer.
Notes
A study for the Odyssey, Book III.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and black ink along lower edge of image, "Nestor's Sons; Nestor; Telamachus"; numbered in graphite at lower right, "30"; inscribed in pen and black ink at lower center, "The King himself initiates to the pow'r / B: 3: 1:564 Pope's Od".
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Homer. Odyssey
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Century Drawings
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