{Neoclassical and Romantic Art [continued (6)]}{Neoclassical Painting}[12th May 1991]

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‘Engravings to the second collection of Hamilton's * Vases by the German artist Johann Heinrich Tischbein were entirely in outline, as were plates in “Les Argonautes” (1794)** by a German painter, Asmus Jakob Carstens.

The most famous outline engravings, widely acclaimed at the time, were those of John Flaxman,*** who, in the 1790's [ce], published a large series of engravings to the Iliad & the Odyssey (1793[ce]). In the same decade he illustrated Aeschylus (1795[ce]) & Dante (before 1799[ce], possibly as early as 1793[ce]). Later he illustrated Hesiod (published 1817[ce]).’

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*(1791-1795[ce])

**64C|2048s~R~1792[ce]

***[FLAxman was our local telephone exchange in Chelsea (when it was still a haunt of artists and other bohemian types), in the days of London dialling, preceding nationwide Subscriber Trunk Dialling which largely did away with memorable letter codes. I seem to recall as a child being told that he was a poet with a connection to Chelsea, neither of which appear to be true….]

****– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:359]

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