Telemachus, in Cyprus, begs the Syrian Hazael to take him as a slave, to enable him to join Mentor and escape to Crete. Engraving by W. Walker after C. Monnet after F. de La Mothe-Fénelon.

  • Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.
Date:
[1774?]
Reference:
3020960i
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Description

An episode in François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, book IV, set in Cyprus. Hazael is a Syrian to whom Mentor had been a slave. Telemachus asks to join him, does so, and is taken by Hazael from Cyprus to Crete

Publication/Creation

[London] (No. 46 Fleet Street) : Publish'd by G. Kearsly, [1774?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 23.5 x 16.6 cm

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Lettering

Telemachus entreats Hazael to receive him as a slave with Mentor. C. Monnet inv. ; W. Walker sculp.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3020960i

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