#thomas b seddon

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Penelope 'Then During the Day She Wove the Large Web, Which at Night She Unravelled' The Odyssey

Artist: Thomas B. Seddon (English, 1821-1856)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

In Homer’s The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus, weaves a burial shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes, by day, only to secretly unravel it at night. This ruse lasted for three years, allowing her to delay marrying one of the many suitors vying for her hand and the throne while waiting for her husband's return.

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

Some Highlights from the upcoming Christie's auction The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics (10th December, London)

detail The Enchanted Garden, 1889, Marie Spartali Stillman

The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not, Evelyn De Morgan (b.1855 d.1919)

Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862, Edward John Poynter

King René’s Honeymoon, 1861, Edward Burne-Jones

The Betrothal of Isaac and Rebecca, 1863, Simeon Solomon 
Arthur at Camelyard, 1905, Edgar W. Davies

Penelope, 1852, Thomas B. Seddon

Petrarch’s First Sight of Laura, William Cave Thomas (b.1820 d.1906)

Full Catalogue: https://www.christies.com/the-joe-setton-collection-29089.aspx?saletitle=#lot_6290744