Original outline engraving from Homer's Odyssey, after a composition by John Flaxman: Nausicaa and her maids play at ball after washing the linen in the river, with Minerva presiding over the scene. Engraved by Joaquín Pi y Margall, around 1860.
Original outline engraving from Homer's Odyssey, after a composition by John Flaxman: Nausicaa and her maids play at ball after washing the linen in the river, with Minerva presiding over the scene. Engraved by Joaquín Pi y Margall, around 1860.
Medium: Outline copper engraving
Artist / after: John Flaxman (1755-1826)
Engraver / lithographer: Joaquín Pi y Margall
Date: circa 1860
Source: Complete works of Flaxman engraved in outline by D. Joaquín Pi y Margall; Odyssey, Book VI, number 10
Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.1 in (26.4 x 18 cm)
Condition: Good, with light foxing spots scattered over the sheet.