Greece GREEK ISLAND ITHACA ITHAKA SAILBOATS ~ 1832 Landscape Art Print Engraving

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Greece GREEK ISLAND ITHACA ITHAKA SAILBOATS ~ 1832 Landscape Art Print Engraving:
$11.99

ITHACA

Artist: Drawn by C. Stanfield from a sketch by W. Page ____________ Engraver: E. Finden

Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving

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PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1833; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.

PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 6 inches by 8 inches including white borders, actual scene is 3 ¾ inches by 5 ½ inches.

PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper.

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DESCRIPTION OF PRINT SUBJECT:

Itháki, also Ithaca is an island in western Greece, one of the Ionian Islands, in Kefallinía (Cephalonia) Department. The small community of Itháki, on a sheltered bay in the southern part of the island, is the capital and chief port. The mountainous, rocky island has many archaeological relics and may have been the site of the legendary kingdom of Odysseus depicted by Homer in the Odyssey. \" ... To whom is not the name of Ithaca familiar? The sea-beaten home of the crafty Ulysses, of the ingenuous Telemachus, and of that pattern to all ancient and modern matrons, the peerless Penelope, whose hand, when her years were at least mature, was wooed, somewhat unceremoniously but with an ardour that might have flattered a dame of less resolute constancy, by a throng of youthful and highborn suitors, each eager, in a spirit worthy of a later and more refined age, to place his domestic establishment under the control of her who was as indisputably the queen of housewives as the daughter of Leda and the queen of beauty. This island now, under its Turkish name Triaki, a member of the Ionian republic, lies in the Ionian sea, between the northern point of Cephallenia and the Grecian continent, at no great distance from the mouth of the Corinthian gulf, now called the gulf of Lepanto. It is about twenty-five miles in circuit, and contains perhaps six or seven thousand inhabitants, chiefly fishermen and herdsmen ; and among these more traces are said to remain of the ancient Grecian character and manners than in any other district. The face of nature has changed so little, in the course of the thirty centuries which have elapsed since Homer lived, that no visitor fails to observe that his descriptions are yet as accurate as picturesque...\"

Please note: the terms used in our sales for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. “ENGRAVINGS”, the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or “engravings” were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this sale is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.

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