JOHANN HEINRICH TISCHBEIN

Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet – Homer drawn after the Antique


With an accompanying text by Christian Gottlob Heyne Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich 1801 (first edition)

Five full page etchings and one engraving, several etched vignettes, ornaments, and initials on laid paper; sheet size ca. 521 x 374 mm (20 ½ x 14 ¾ inches)

Andresen 21-34; Rümann 2640

LITERATURE
Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey, German Printmaking in the age of Goethe, exhibition catalogue, British Museum, London 1994, no. 85.

The full size illustrations show:

Portrait of Homer (engraving by Raphael Morghen after a drawing by Tischbein)
Homer educated by the Muses
Apotheosis of Homer
Helena Guided by Paris to his Boat
Heads of Seven Homeric Heroes
Nestor Puts the Dead Body of his Son Antilochus on a Carriage

Portrait of Homer (engraving by Raphael Morghen after a drawing by Tischbein)

Nestor Puts the Dead Body of his Son Antilochus on a Carriage