TELEMACHUS’S ESCAPE FROM THE TROJANS 1792 John Barlow - Corbould ETCHING

Original 1792 10 inch x 7 3/4 inch etching and engraving titled TELEMACHUS’S ESCAPE FROM THE TROJANS.
From ‘The Adventures of Telemachus’ an epic poem from the French of Fenelon with alterations by the Rev. Mark Anthony Meilan. Mark Anthony Meilan was a writer, born about 1743, who at one time a situation in the post-office, which he resigned in order to become an instructor in private families in English, bookkeeping, and shorthand, of languages, arts, and sciences. He took orders, and for some time served the curacy of St. John, Wapping. In 1809 he was assistant minister of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, and was apparently alive in 1816.

Engraved by John Barlow (c. 1760 - 1810). Reproductive etcher, working in London.

After Richard Corbould (1757 - 1831). Corbould was a painter, in oil and watercolour, of portraits, landscape, and occasionally history; of porcelain, and miniatures on ivory, and enamels; and was furthermore an important illustrator of books renowned for his Napoleonic sketches of Ships, and a follower of the old masters. From 1777 to 1811 he was a constant contributor to the Royal Academy.

Text below image: “Nor did the Power, oh Queen, her aid deny: / Shot through the fleet, we bound we dart we fly. / From the glad host for their Companions found, / Shouts of loud transport rend the region round. / JOVE breathes a gale.”

’Published as the Act directs by M.A. Meilan, Feb’y 1, 1792

Image size 5 3/4 inch x 4 7/8 inch

The etching is in very good condition with some foxing around the border.