Artworks · John Flaxman

The King of the Lestrigens Seizing One of the Companions of Ulysses

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 243 mm

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Ulysses at the Table of Circe

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 260 mm

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Ulysses Giving Wine to Polyphemus

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 247 mm

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Ulysses Weeps at the Song of Demodocus

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 296 mm

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Ulysses Following the Car of Nausicaa

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 170 x 293 mm

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Ulysses on the Hearth Presenting Himself to Alcinous and Arete

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 168 x 303 mm

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Nausicaa Throwing the Ball

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 173 x 293 mm

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Mercury’s Message to Calypso

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 172 x 290 mm

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Leucothea Preserving Ulysses

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 294 mm

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Nestor’s Sacrifice

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 177 x 295 mm

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Penelope’s Dream

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 247 mm

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Telemachus in Seach of his Father

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 309 mm

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Penelope Surprised by the Suitors

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 168 x 245 mm

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The Descent of Minerva to Ithaca

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 171 x 293 mm

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Phemius Singing to the Suitors

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 167 x 285 mm

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Council of Jupiter, Minerva, and Mercury

1805 · Etching on paper

image: 171 x 241 mm

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Title Page: Profile of Homer

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 185 x 286 mm

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The Daughters of Pandarus

1805 · Charcoal and graphite, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper prepared with a pale brown wash

32 × 44.2 cm (12 5/8 × 17 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Design for the Tomb of Dr. Joseph Warton

1804 · graphite

overall: 11.8 x 7 cm (4 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Male Figure in Contemporary Dress

1801 · graphite

overall (approximate): 16.2 x 7.9 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Studies [recto and verso]

1801 · graphite

overall: 20.3 x 15.5 cm (8 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Chessmen (32)

1800 · Jasperware

Height (king): 4 in. (10.2 cm); Height (pawn): 2 in. (5.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Studies for a Triumphal Arch Surmounted by Britannia [recto and verso]

1799 · graphite

overall: 3.5 x 14.9 cm (1 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Beggars at a Door (Study for the Yarborough Monument)

1798 · graphite

overall: 6.8 x 4.7 cm (2 11/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Monument to Agnes Cromwell (?)

1798 · graphite

overall: 10.7 x 11.9 cm (4 3/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Studies

1798 · graphite//on back of 1798 Royal Academy exhibition announcement

overall: 12.1 x 15.5 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Two Greek Classical Figures

1797 · graphite on laid paper

overall: 14.7 x 19.1 cm (5 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Designs for a Monument to Sir William Jones (?) [recto and verso]

1796 · graphite; verso: graphite and pen and gray ink over graphite

overall: 22.7 x 19 cm (8 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Design for a Medal Representing Saint George and the Dragon

1795 · graphite

overall: 5.8 x 5.9 cm (2 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Figure Standing over Corpses, Blowing a Horn

1795 · pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper

overall: 15.2 x 15.6 cm (6 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 9 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (24.1 x 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classical Figure Studies

1792 · Graphite on paper

support: 68 x 242 mm

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Paris and Oenone

1791 · brush and gray wash with pen and pale gray-black ink with graphite and brown ink

Sheet: 30.3 x 48.8 cm (11 15/16 x 19 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.1 x 53.6 cm (13 13/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Comfort the Afflicted

1790 · pen and gray ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper

overall: 13.3 x 45.6 cm (5 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Three Sketches of a Standing Woman

1790 · pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper

overall: 8.8 x 13.1 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Seated Man Flanked by Two Reclining Figures; Huddle of Figures in Lower Left Corner

1790 · pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper

overall: 9.1 x 13.1 cm (3 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Fury of Athamas"

1790 · graphite

overall: 15.8 x 14.7 cm (6 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Otus and Ephialtes Holding Mars Captive

1790 · graphite

overall: 17 x 22.4 cm (6 11/16 x 8 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Alcestis and Admetus

1789 · Ink, watercolour and graphite on paper

support: 238 x 417 mm

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Amphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus

1789 · Pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Primary support: 16.1 × 29.2 cm (6 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 23.3 × 35.7 cm (9 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Illustration for "Seven Chiefs Against Thebes" (recto); Studies of Figures (verso)

1789 · Pen and black and gray ink, graphite

sheet: 8 x 15 7/8 in. (20.3 x 40.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Giants

1788 · graphite on brown tracing paper

overall: 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Album of Drawings for Dante's "Divine Comedy"

1788 · bound volume with 78 drawings in pen and ink and graphite

sheet: 42.5 × 30.4 cm (16 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.) book: 43.8 × 32.5 × 3.4 cm (17 1/4 × 12 13/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli

1783 · Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

34 × 47 cm (13 7/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Figures Embracing

1780 · graphite

overall: 7.4 x 4.9 cm (2 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Waiting on Sir Ed. Hales at St Stephens. Caricature

1775 · Graphite and ink on paper

support: 307 x 513 mm

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Seven Chiefs Against Thebes

1775 · Pen and gray ink, over graphite, on gray laid paper

18.2 × 41.7 cm (7 3/16 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago