Penelope weaves the shroud for Laërtes, Bernard Picart (workshop of), 1733 print Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is behind her loom. She makes a shroud for her father -in -law Laërtes, but at night she again gets out of what she woven during the day. An angel helps her. In the margin the title in French, English, German and Dutch. The performance is decorated with an ornamental edge. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Penelope weaving Laertes' shroud (Homer, Odyssey II 94-100; XIX 138-155). scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament

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