#thomas seddon

[women-of-the-epic-cycle]

Penelope

— Thomas Seddon

[oncanvas]

View on the Nile near Cairo, Thomas Seddon, circa 1855

Watercolor over graphite with stopping out, heightened with gouache 7 9/16 x 14 1/16 in. (19.2 x 35.7 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[landschaftsmalerei]

Pyramids at Gizeh

by Thomas Seddon (1855, oil on canvas)

[oldpaintings]

Penelope 'Then During the Day She Wove the Large Web, Which at Night She Unravelled' The Odyssey, 1852 by Thomas Seddon (English, 1821-1856)

[meisterdrucke]

Pyramids at Gizeh, 1855 by Thomas Seddon

[drrestlesshate]

Thomas Seddon - Dromedary and Arabs at the City of the Dead, Cairo, with the Tomb of Sultan El Barkook in the Background

[pre-raphaelisme]

Penelope “then during the day she wove the large web, which at night she unravelled” The Odyssey by Thomas Seddon, 1852

[books0977]

Penelope “then during the day she wove the large web, which at night she unravelled” The Odyssey (1852). Thomas Seddon (English, 1821-1856). Oil on canvas.

Penelope looks out after a night spent undoing the previous day's work on a woven shroud. During the long period during which her husband Odysseus was away, assumed by most to be dead, she remained faithful to him and, when pressed to marry another, always said she could not until the shroud was finished, a subterfuge which she maintained for ten years.