Homer Invoking His Muse (Iliad) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.693
People: John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Title: Homer Invoking His Muse (Iliad)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: before 1805
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298001

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gray ink and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 18.1 x 25.2 cm (7 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.693

Division

European and American Art

Contact

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Publication History

Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 47
Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 18, fig. 6

Exhibition History

Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999

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