Image Views:
- Description
See Also:
From:
{
embed_type: 'image',
embed_detail: 'http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/miller/0071/ver01/0001h.jpg',
embed_alt: 'Ulysses and the Syrens / John Doyle [artwork]',
thumbnail: {
url: 'http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/miller/0071/ver01/0001h.jpg',
alt: 'Ulysses and the Syrens / John Doyle [artwork]'
},
download_links:[
{
label:'TIFF Master',
link: 'TIFF',
meta: 'TIFF'
},{
label:'MODS Bibliographic Record',
link: 'mods.xml',
meta: 'XML'
},
{
label:'METS Object Description',
link: 'mets.xml',
meta: 'XML'
}
]
}
Ulysses and the Syrens / John Doyle [artwork]
- Title
- Ulysses and the Syrens [artwork]
- Artist
- Doyle, John, 1797-1868
- Date Created
- 1840
- Genre
- artwork
- Physical Description
- Sheet: 12 x 17 1/2 inches (30.5 x 44.5 cm.); image: (outer double border) 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches (28.9 x 39.3 cm.)
- Artist nationality
- British
- Artist role
- draughtsman, painter, lithographer, and caricaturist
- Inscription
- Recto: top center: (in pencil) 2 ; u. r.: HB Sketches. No. 628. ; l. l.: (monogram) HB ; l. l.: (just beneath image) Published March 3rd 1840 by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket. ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Printed at A. Ducote's Lithog.c Establishment 70, St. Martins Lane. ; bottom center: ULYSSES AND THE SYRENS. ; (figures in the scene are identified in pencil) ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) [102?] / Ritti Apr. 1925 / 20 fcs = 1 00 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/630
- Medium
- Lithograph.
- Condition
- Good condition. It has been lined with heavy paper backing, so small edge tears on corners and on right middle edge have by "mended." There are a few light brown spots in several places and light adhesive tape stains are at the upper left and right corners.
- Provenance
- Paul Ritti, Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, Apr. 1925.
- Instrument
- Flute, Lyre
- Century
- 19th century
- Subject
- Political Satire
- Miller category
- Mythological, etc.
- Miller ID
- 0071/U
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 03-05-2014