FLAXMAN, John
(b. 1755, York, d. 1826, London)

Odysseus in the Underworld

1792
Pen, 229 x 298 mm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

This is an illustration to Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, 779.

The English artist and sculptor John Flaxman had a lasting influence on the taste of his age. His outline drawings produced from the 1790s were considered brilliant illustrations of antique literature for their striking simplicity.




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