Title(s)

Bas-reliëfs van de apotheose van Homerus, de apotheose van Vergilius en Orestes met Pylades

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1624-3

Artist

• photographer: Joseph Cundall

Dating

c. 1868 - in or before 1873

Material

• paper

Technique

carbon print

Measurements

height 361 mm × width 270 mm

What

• sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)
• apotheosis of Homer: the poet, seated on a throne, is hailed by Apollo and the Muses, History, Poetry and sundry other allegorical figures
• the poet Virgilius
• 95A(ORESTES) (story of) Orestes

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Wedgwood and his works : a selection of his plaques, cameos, medallions, vases, etc. from the designs of Flaxman and others, reproduced in permanent photography by the autotype process (RP-F-2001-7-1624)