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Fr. Preller [Friedrich Preller], plnx. Odyssee-Fresken [Odyssey Frescoes]. VI a. K. Schwier, Weimar, phot.; verso: Fr. Preller's Odyssee-Fresken. Grossherzogliches Museum zu Weimar. VIa. Odysseus beim Sauhirten Eumaus erblickt seinen Sohn Telemachos [Friedrich Preller's Odyssey Frescoes. Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. VIa. Odysseus sees his son Telemachus while at the hut of swineherd Eumaeus] 162544 [divided back, no message]
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Fr. Preller [Friedrich Preller], plnx. Odyssee-Fresken [Odyssey Frescoes]. VI a. K. Schwier, Weimar, phot.; verso: Fr. Preller's Odyssee-Fresken. Grossherzogliches Museum zu Weimar. VIa. Odysseus beim Sauhirten Eumaus erblickt seinen Sohn Telemachos [Friedrich Preller's Odyssey Frescoes. Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. VIa. Odysseus sees his son Telemachus while at the hut of swineherd Eumaeus] 162544 [divided back, no message], result 1 of 1

Fr. Preller [Friedrich Preller], plnx. Odyssee-Fresken [Odyssey Frescoes]. VI a. K. Schwier, Weimar, phot.; verso: Fr. Preller's Odyssee-Fresken. Grossherzogliches Museum zu Weimar. VIa. Odysseus beim Sauhirten Eumaus erblickt seinen Sohn Telemachos [Friedrich Preller's Odyssey Frescoes. Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. VIa. Odysseus sees his son Telemachus while at the hut of swineherd Eumaeus] 162544 [divided back, no message]
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Creator
Schwier, K. (publisher, German, act. 1907-1914)
artwork depicted by Preller, Friedrich (painter, German, 1804-1878)
Culture
German
Title
Fr. Preller [Friedrich Preller], plnx. Odyssee-Fresken [Odyssey Frescoes]. VI a. K. Schwier, Weimar, phot.; verso: Fr. Preller's Odyssee-Fresken. Grossherzogliches Museum zu Weimar. VIa. Odysseus beim Sauhirten Eumaus erblickt seinen Sohn Telemachos [Friedrich Preller's Odyssey Frescoes. Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. VIa. Odysseus sees his son Telemachus while at the hut of swineherd Eumaeus] 162544 [divided back, no message]
overall
recto
Work Type
Picture postcard
Date
ca.1907-1914 (publication date)
Material
paper
cardstock
Measurements
14 x 9 cm (5.51 x 3.54 inches) approximately
Description
The Phaeacians, who are skilled mariners, agree to help Odysseus get home. They deliver him at night, while he is fast asleep, to a hidden harbour on Ithaca. He finds his way to the hut of one of his own slaves, the swineherd Eumaeus. Athena disguises Odysseus as a wandering beggar so he can see how things stand in his household. After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca. Meanwhile, Telemachus sails home from Sparta, evading an ambush set by the Suitors. He disembarks on the coast of Ithaca and makes for Eumaeus's hut. Father and son meet; Odysseus identifies himself to Telemachus (but still not to Eumaeus), and they decide that the Suitors must be killed (Wikipedia).
Repository
Trinity College, Watkinson Library (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
Accession Number
Box 10.176-34
Subject
Postcards; Frescoes; Homer. Odyssey; Poems; Greek literature; Ulysses (Odysseus, Greek mythology); Journeys; Ithaca (Greece); Sons; Boars; Herdsmen; Slaves 
Collection
Trinity College Watkinson Library: George Watson Cole European Postcard Collection
ID Number
540307
Source
Trinity College Library
Vendor: Trinity College Watkinson Library
Rights
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