Telemachus at the Court of Sparta
Thomas Burke, Irish, 1749 - 1815, after Angelica Kauffman, Swiss, 1741 - 18071773
Mezzotint and etching, hand-colored, mounted onto secondary wove paper support
Image: 18 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (47 × 62.2 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/2 × 27 1/2 in. (54.6 × 69.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Adrian W. B. Randolph, in honor of Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College, 1997-2010
2012.28.2
Publisher
William Wynne Ryland
Geography/Culture
Europe, Ireland
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Partial inscription of original plate affixed to back of paper: inscribed, top center: W. W. Ryland Excudit; inscribed, left: No. [o superscript] 6 Angelica Kauffman Pinxt. [t superscript]; center: TELEMACHUS at the COURT of SPARTA discover'd by his Grief on the mention of his Fathers [sic] Sufferings.
Course History
ARTH 48, Rococo to Neoclassicism, Kristin O‘Rourke, Fall 2014
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