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Circe's enchantment – Historic Print

Circe's enchantment — historic print
Circe's enchantment. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Circe's enchantment, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Circe's enchantment

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Circe's enchantment draws on the sorceress of Homer's Odyssey, who turned Odysseus's men into swine on her island and was later persuaded to restore them. The scene is a classical subject that artists returned to for centuries, and this color etching, dated 1957 in its record, shows a mid-twentieth-century printmaker working in an old tradition. Etching was a favored method for such mythological scenes because its fine lines could render the magic and the transformation with precision. The Library of Congress holds it in the Prints and Photographs Division.

Medium1 print : col. etching ; 44.9 x 60.4 cm.
Notes1957
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,145 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136800

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