Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles
date: label: Date
content: 1810–20
name: label: Artist
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Iris flies besides the walking Priam; a view into a room with sleeping Trojans is at left; the camp of the Greeks is shown in the right middle plane; Thetis approaches Achilles who sits behind the body of Hector who is fastened to his chariot.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-600
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on thick white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: (irregular): 48.5 x 74 cm (19 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)