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Homer and Aeschylus

Homer and Aeschylus

Maker
Designer (British, 1833 - 1898)
Maker (British, 1861 - 1940)
Collections
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS
Dateca. 1892
Mediumsilver nitrate
Dimensions2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (6.4 x 6 cm.) mount: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.5 cm.)
DescriptionPhotograph of stained glass cartoon. Two archways separated by columns - drapery behind and city beyond. Left side shows Homer, hands crossed over chest, grasping staff and cloak about him. At right, Aeschylus in robes, looking left holding pencil and tablet.
InscribedInscribed on recto above upper right: 115 upper left corner in black ink by a separate hand: S. P. 35 above right corner in graphite: 115 below left corner in graphite: Homer and Aeschylus below photo in graphite: HOMER and AESCHYLUS in black ink on card at lower right: Please return to/ Morris & Comp y/ Merton Abbey Surrey
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
Not on view
Object number2000.5.1536B
Homer; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Three Arts; Medea and Phyllis; Caxton; Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey; Shylock and Portia; Dante; Milton; Tennyson
Homer; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Three Arts; Medea and Phyllis; Caxton; Printing Press and Durer; Cromwell and Wolsey; Shylock and Portia; Dante; Milton; Tennyson
Edward Burne-Jones
ca. 1927
Object number: 2000.5.51
Shakespeare and Milton
Shakespeare and Milton
Unknown, British
n.d.
Object number: 2000.5.1536A
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Unknown, British
1871-1874
Object number: 2000.5.2156
Homer
Homer
Unknown, British
1871-1874
Object number: 2000.5.2158
Aeschylus; Lucretius
Aeschylus; Lucretius
Edward Burne-Jones
ca. 1928
Object number: 2000.5.988
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.6
Portrait of Ida Hull Lloyd Crotty (Mrs. Homer David Crotty)
Portrait of Ida Hull Lloyd Crotty (Mrs. Homer David Crotty)
Nicolai Ivanovitch Fechin
1939
Object number: 2007.23.1
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Comus": The Magic Banquet with the Lady Spell-Bound
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Comus": The Magic Banquet with the Lady Spell-Bound
William Blake
ca. 1801
Object number: 000.24
Valour [?]
Valour [?]
Unknown
n.d.
Object number: 2000.5.1504
Virgil and Horace
Virgil and Horace
Unknown, British
ca. 1873
Object number: 2000.5.1549D
Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version]
Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version]
William Blake
1808
Object number: 000.3
Illustration 2 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell
Illustration 2 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.2