Artworks · John Flaxman

The Sirens

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 168 x 244 mm

Tate

Morning

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 292 mm

Tate

The King of the Lestrigens Seizing One of the Companions of Ulysses

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 243 mm

Tate

Ulysses at the Table of Circe

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 260 mm

Tate

Ulysses Giving Wine to Polyphemus

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 247 mm

Tate

Ulysses Weeps at the Song of Demodocus

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 296 mm

Tate

Ulysses Following the Car of Nausicaa

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 170 x 293 mm

Tate

Ulysses on the Hearth Presenting Himself to Alcinous and Arete

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 168 x 303 mm

Tate

Nausicaa Throwing the Ball

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 173 x 293 mm

Tate

Mercury’s Message to Calypso

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 172 x 290 mm

Tate

Leucothea Preserving Ulysses

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 174 x 294 mm

Tate

Nestor’s Sacrifice

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 177 x 295 mm

Tate

Penelope’s Dream

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 247 mm

Tate

Telemachus in Seach of his Father

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 170 x 309 mm

Tate

Penelope Surprised by the Suitors

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 168 x 245 mm

Tate

The Descent of Minerva to Ithaca

1805 · Engraving and etching on paper

image: 171 x 293 mm

Tate

Phemius Singing to the Suitors

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 167 x 285 mm

Tate

Council of Jupiter, Minerva, and Mercury

1805 · Etching on paper

image: 171 x 241 mm

Tate

Title Page: Profile of Homer

1805 · Engraving on paper

image: 185 x 286 mm

Tate

The Daughters of Pandarus

1805 · Charcoal and graphite, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper prepared with a pale brown wash

32 × 44.2 cm (12 5/8 × 17 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Design for the Tomb of Dr. Joseph Warton

1804 · graphite

overall: 11.8 x 7 cm (4 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Male Figure in Contemporary Dress

1801 · graphite

overall (approximate): 16.2 x 7.9 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Studies [recto and verso]

1801 · graphite

overall: 20.3 x 15.5 cm (8 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Composition from the Tragedies of Aeschylus, plate 17 (recto); Goddess Statue from the Suppliants, plate 7 (verso)

1800 · Graphite

Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 11/16 in. (26.3 × 39.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced in Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

mount: 11 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (29 x 21 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced in Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

mount: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29 x 20.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced by Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

sheet: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29 x 20.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced in Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

mount: 11 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (29 x 21 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced in Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

mount: 8 1/4 x 11 7/16 in. (21 x 29 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for large fireplace white tiles produced in Wedgwood's factory

1800 · Pen and black ink over graphite

mount: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29 x 20.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chessmen (32)

1800 · Jasperware

Height (king): 4 in. (10.2 cm);

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chessmen (32)

1800 · Jasperware

Height (king): 4 in. (10.2 cm); Height (pawn): 2 in. (5.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Studies for a Triumphal Arch Surmounted by Britannia [recto and verso]

1799 · graphite

overall: 3.5 x 14.9 cm (1 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Beggars at a Door (Study for the Yarborough Monument)

1798 · graphite

overall: 6.8 x 4.7 cm (2 11/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Monument to Agnes Cromwell (?)

1798 · graphite

overall: 10.7 x 11.9 cm (4 3/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Studies

1798 · graphite//on back of 1798 Royal Academy exhibition announcement

overall: 12.1 x 15.5 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Two Greek Classical Figures

1797 · graphite on laid paper

overall: 14.7 x 19.1 cm (5 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Designs for a Monument to Sir William Jones (?) [recto and verso]

1796 · graphite; verso: graphite and pen and gray ink over graphite

overall: 22.7 x 19 cm (8 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Design for a Medal Representing Saint George and the Dragon

1795 · graphite

overall: 5.8 x 5.9 cm (2 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Figure Standing over Corpses, Blowing a Horn

1795 · pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper

overall: 15.2 x 15.6 cm (6 x 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Sketches

1793 · Pen and brown and gray ink over graphite on blue paper

Sheet: 8 5/8 x 8 1/2 in. (21.9 x 21.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Achilles and the Shade of Patroclus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (21.3 x 28.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 9 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (24.1 x 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 11 x 8 5/16 in. (27.9 x 21.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

1793 · Pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 9 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (24.1 x 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classical Figure Studies

1792 · Graphite on paper

support: 68 x 242 mm

Tate

Dante and Virgil in the Suicidal Wood (Inferno, Canto 13, verses 22-23)

1792 · Reed pen and black ink over graphite

Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (19.1 x 25.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art