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FLAXMAN, John. HOMÈRE. Composizioni di Giovanni Flaxman, scu…
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118
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FLAXMAN, John. HOMÈRE. Composizioni di Giovanni Flaxman, scu…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
FLAXMAN, John. HOMÈRE.
Composizioni di Giovanni Flaxman, scultore inglese, tratte dall'Odissea di Omero. Opera di proprietà dell'incisore Beniamino del Vecchio.
[Rome, B. del Vecchio, ca. 1820].
Small oblong folio (ca 31 x 38 cm), 35 plates (including title). Contemporary brown cloth-covered bradel boards, tan morocco basane title label on upper board, title in gilt (Corners and headpieces slightly worn, light scattered foxing but a good copy).
Album of 34 black etchings illustrating the Odyssey, engraved by Beniamino del Vecchio after Flaxman, after the letter and numbered.
The fine line drawings float between neo-classicism and Romanticism à la Füssli. Flaxman (1755-1826) was a famous English sculptor and draughtsman who gained great renown in Rome between 1787 and 1794 with his neo-classical illustrations of the works of Homer, Aeschylus and Dante, first printed in 1793 and then published.
NEOCLASSICISM.
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