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Circe Drinking with the Companions of Ulysses

(Italian, about 1510–about 1550)
mid 16th century
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks in light gray-blue, medium gray-blue, dark gray-blue, and black
DimensionsSheet: 21.5 x 20 cm (8 7/16 x 7 7/8 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number64.1096
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1964, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1964)
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