The story of Telemachus
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top: Telemachus and his companion Minerva disguised as Mentor invited by Calypso into her lodging. She is shown from the right back walking, in the center. An altar is in the right forground. The servants prepare the meal in the right distance. Caption:
label: Description
content: "1 Mentore Talemaco alogiati/dalla Dea Calipso."
label: Description
content: In the right margin is a pen sketch for a slightly altered pose of Calypso. Bottom Calypso seated at dinner with her guests give orders to a group of singers and a lyre player standing at left to cheer up the guests. Telemachus leans his head in his right hand. Servants bring plates in the rear. Caption:
label: Description
content: "Convito fatto da Calipso/ a talemaco."
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: 1901-39-3395
objectType: 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 wash, on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.8 x 30.3 cm (9 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)