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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Iliad / Cycles / Prints by Flaxman and copies after them ((1793-1805) / Copy of the first edition (engraved by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen)
Ancient / Homer / Iliad / Book XXIII: Funeral games for Patroclus / vv. 212-216: The wind gods kindle Patroclus's funerary pyre

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / Weather / Winds / Miscellaneous

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Death / Funerals and accompanying rituals / Cremation

Further details

Artist or creator

Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig (1765-1840) after
Flaxman, John (1755-1826)

Date

1793 (circa) Undated copies after Flaxman's first edition from 1793

Location

London, Warburg Institute

Book, text or document (source of image)

Homer. John Flaxman's Umrisse zu Homer's Ilias und Odyssee, gestochen von E. Riepenhausen. Berlin. 1851. Plate: 31.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue.

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Web resources

Gallica (digitised version of the original 1793 edition)

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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