Oenotria Telus, An Idealized Woodland Scene Near Naples
Medium
Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 43.4 × 34 cm (17 1/8 × 13 7/16 in.); Plate, approx.; trimmed within left plate edge: 45.2 × 35.6 cm (17 13/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 51.4 × 36.7 cm (20 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
221704
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This sizable landscape print by Tischbein, the German director of the Neapolitan art academy, served as a frontispiece for his book Homer Drawn after the Antique. Tischbein also describes himself on the title page as the depot director of the Farnese Antiquities, a Renaissance-era collection, which he moved from Rome to Naples. Rather than reproducing Homeric scenes from ancient sculpture as was done elsewhere in the book, this etching depicts the verdant landscape of the Cyclops Polyphemus’s is...