The Iliad
Artwork Details
- Title: The Iliad
- Author: Homer (Greek, active 13th or 8th century BCE)
- Translator: Alexander Pope (British, 1688–1744)
- Publisher: F. J. Du Roveray (London)
- Illustrator: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London)
- Illustrator: Henry Singleton (British, London 1766–1839 London)
- Illustrator: Thomas Stothard (British, London 1755–1834 London)
- Engraver: Isaac Taylor, Jr. (British, 1759–1829)
- Engraver: James Heath (British, London 1757–1834 London)
- Engraver: James Fittler (British, London 1758–1835 Middlesex)
- Engraver: William Bromley (British, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 1769–1842)
- Engraver: Robert Hartley Cromek (British, Hull 1771–1812 London)
- Engraver: James Stow (British, near Maidstone, Kent 1770–after 1823)
- Engraver: Edward Smith (British, active 1823–51)
- Engraver: Luigi Schiavonetti (Italian, Bassano del Grappa 1765–1810 London)
- Date: 1813
- Medium: Illustrations: engraving
- Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in. (18.5 x 12 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Bequest of Helen W. D. Mileham, 1955
- Object Number: 55.578.2(1-6)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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