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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 181-191: Ulysses (bound to the mast) and his companions (with their ears stuffed) pass the Sirens

Further details

Exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1837, no. 122

Artist or creator

Etty, William (1787-1849)

Date

1836

Location

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

A. Gilchrist, Life of William Etty, 1855, vol. II, pp. 52, 63, 66, 84; W. Gaunt and F. G. Roe, Etty and the Nude, 1943, pp. 70, 97, 107; Manchester City Art Gallery Catalogue 1898-1899, no. 70; D. Farr, William Etty, 1958, pp. 11, 67f., 78f., 83f., 107, 109, cat. no. 84, pl. 63

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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