John Flaxman

John Flaxman was a sculptor whose linear, outline-based designs for classical epic and tragedy became widely circulated through engraved illustration. The archive holds two such illustrated series, realised in line engraving, with one also using stipple engraving for the Hesiod sheets. These impressions date from 1795 to 1805 and cover his compositions for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Aeschylus, and Hesiod.

2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod

1795–1817 · Illustrations: line engraving and stipple engraving (Hesiod only)

The Iliad of Homer Engraved From the Compositions of John Flaxman, R.A., Sculptor

1805 · Illustrations: line engraving