Currently not on view
Return of Agamemnon,
1795
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1795
Holoway, London.;
Detached from album no longer extant. The album had marbled paper-bound boards, red cloth spine and corners and measured: H. .505 m. W. .338 m. Contained 119 leaves (first 117 numbered in pencil upper right corner) to which the drawings were attached on right sides only. Pencil notes as to provenance in Platt’s hand after page 63.
Note by Platt inside front cover: Pages 1-63 (up to 48-1739) bought in this book from Holoway, London, 1926, for $60. Another label, laid in, handwritten: in ink, by John Flaxman R.A. / from Miss Denman’s Sale / April 10, 1862 (Flaxman estate, Christie’s, London); in pencil, Bought at Christie’s May 9, 1910, lot 11 / R.G.(?)N.