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February 2006 Online Auction

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169. Four Compositions From "The Tragedies of Aeschylus", Designed by John Flaxman, Engraved by Thomas Piroli and Frank Howard

Plates 15, 16, 17, and 18, London, published April 15th, 1831 by Miss Flaxman and Miss Maria Denman, 74 Upper Norton Street, Fitzroy Square. Line engravings taken from the folio of thirty- six plates. The names of the characters and the quotations are given on each plate. The labels are made from the top four lines of the new title page. This publication is a reprint of the English 1795 plates with the inscriptions altered. Image size approx. 9-1/2" x 15-3/4", with double mat and gold tone wood frame approx. 16-1/2" x 22-1/4".



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