Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<Ancient History>: (22) The baptism of Achilles. Just as you temper a weapon of war, / Thetis, wanting to make of her brat a hero, / Steeped him in the Styx until he saw the light; / Which proves that baths are good for all purposes (On the Influence of baths, Poem by Mr. Vigier)
Date | 1842 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph, newsprint paper |
Size(cm) | 25.4 x 19.8 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 946 (iii/iii), Tobu I-298 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0452 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Honore Daumier Caricatures from the Tobu Collections: Eyewitness of an Epoch, Tobu Museum of Art, 25 January 1997 - 11 February 1997, no. 114
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 57.