The Iliad of Homer . engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman ...
John Flaxman RA (York 1755 – London 1826)
Category
Books
Date
1805
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3164777
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1],39 leaves of plates . fol. Bound with his: Iliad of Homer (1805). Loosely inserted: 2 copies each of 2 typed sheets of excerpts from Gage, History of the Thingoe hundred (1838). Binding: Early twentieth-century half vellum; brown cloth sides; brown morocco spine label with title ‘Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. Flaxman’
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
John Flaxman RA (York 1755 – London 1826) William Blake (London 1757 - London 1827) James Parker (London 1750 - London 1805) Tommaso Piroli (Rome 1750 - Rome 1824)