The Marble Bust of Homer
in the Long Room
Trinity College Library,
Dublin.
Peter Scheemakers
Signed P.S. Ft.
A version of the Farnese Homer (see engravings below).
Peter Scheemakers
Signed P.S. Ft.
A version of the Farnese Homer (see engravings below).
Rembrandt.
![Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to right, after an antique marble in the Farnesina collection; frontispiece to Alexander Pope's "The Illiad of Homer". 1715<br/>Engraving](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613226022_l.jpg)
The Farnese Homer
Engraving
George Vertue
247 x 178 mm
1715.
British Museum
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![Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to left, placed in a niche, after an antique marble in the Farnesina collection<br/>Etching](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613225996_l.jpg)
The Farnese Homer
Engraving
Anon.
162 x 114 mm.
British Museum
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![Portrait bust of Homer on a plinth directed to left, lettered state with reworked plinth and shading; frontispiece to an edition of Homer's Illiad<br/>Etching and engraving](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613225995_l.jpg)
Homer
Engraving
George Vertue
123 x 74 mm.
1716
British Museum.
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![Portrait bust of Homer, after the antique in the Farnese collection in Rome (now Naples). 1715/21 Mezzotint](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00119/AN00119819_001_l.jpg)
The Farnese Homer
(now Nat Mus. Naples).
Engraving
by John Faber Sr
352 x 252 mm
British Museum.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWdSHcOOy3ZVqYdCM_T4QR-V_toa0gFD8ZmSWVrL87SNyx8CxbWpxwfl_MStc2w6LL-rx-4G-CNjLxJ6Wz3NIUwyHIx1p2QUl5tfoZJOcfSzZByQ4a6TKury3PCxk4_b05ZgHgcxuFTk/s1600/AN00213107_001_l.jpg)
Homer
mezzotint
after Rubens
British Museum.
For Rubens and Homer see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Rubens
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![Head of Homer in profile to right wearing a circlet; in an oval frame; from an antique bas-relief in copper then in the collection of Richard Mead and previously in the collection of the Earl of Arundel. Etching with some engraving](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613226018_l.jpg)
The Arundel Homer
Engraving.
Bernard Baron
359 x 359
British Museum.
![Portrait head of Homer directed to right, probably after an antique sculpture<br/>Etching](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613225997_l.jpg)
The Arundel Homer
Bernard Baron
Engraving
114 x 98 mm.
British Museum
![Portrait bust of Homer after a sculptured bust, directed to right; on a pedestal placed on a table; after a drawing by Vertue. 1725 Engraving](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00833/AN00833333_001_l.jpg)
Homer
Bronze bust in the possession of Richard Meade
The Arundel Homer
Engraving by George Vertue,
1725.
242 x 176 mm.
British Museum
![Sophocles (formerly known as 'the Arundel Homer'); bust, with head slightly inclined forward, on a circular plinth Brush drawing in grey wash, over black chalk](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00286/AN00286737_001_l.jpg)
Original drawing of the Arundel Homer by George Vertue.
224 x 160 mm.
British Museum.
![Bronze head from a statue, perhaps of Sophocles. This head represents a man of middle age, with a thick beard, slightly thinning hair and a severe expression, enhanced by a deeply wrinkled brow. His hair is bound by a rolled band, like a diadem of a type usually associated with Hellenistic rulers, rather than philosophers or playwrights. The body types for statues of famous intellectuals are generally semi-draped, with perhaps only the chest bared. Both the body and the face usually exhibit signs of age.](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00309/AN00309897_001_l.jpg)
The Arundel Homer (Sophocles).
Provenance Earl of Arundel
Richard Mead
Brownlow Cecil who donated it to the B.M.
Previously
recorded as probably having been found in Istanbul. For the evidence for its
discovery in a well in Smyrna, by the Revd William Petty, see Harding, Robert
JD, 'The head of a certain Macedonian King' An old identity for the British
Museum's 'Arundel Homer' in The British Art Journal, Volume IX No. 2, Autumn
2008.
Acquired by the British Museum in 1760
British Museum ______________________________________
![Image result for Bust of Homer engraving](https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/BookImages/80184a.jpg)
Frontispiece from The Iliad of Homer
Translated By Alexander Pope
Pub. Berard Lintot
1715.
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For the Joseph Wilton bust of Homer see my post -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/bust-by-louis-francois-roubiliac-of.html
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![Marble terminal portrait bust of the blind poet Homer, with Greek letters carved on each side.](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00613/AN00613448_001_l.jpg)
The Townley Homer
British Museum.
see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=613448001&objectId=460092&partId=1
![Drawings 3(7)](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00906/AN00906340_001_l.jpg)
The Townley Homer
Engraving by Bartolozzi
after a drawing by John Brown.
425 x 330 mm.
British Museum
![Portrait bust of Homer, facing front, after an antique sculpture in the collection of Charles Townley. 1796<br/>Etching](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN16132/AN1613226026_l.jpg)
Homer.
Engraved after a drawing by John Brown of the marble bust of Homer in the Townley
Excavated in 1780.Collection, now in the British Museum.
![An intact head of Homer excavated from Baia in 1780; head and shoulders directed to left, an elderly man with curly beard and hair, thick around the ears and brushed close to the head over the crown; on a ledge; in an oval set on a plaque, all within a rectangle; after a drawing by Brown from a statue in the collection of Charles Townley. Stipple with etching](http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00786/AN00786130_001_l.jpg)
Engraving of the Townley Homer
after John Brown.
Marino Bovi
218 x 140 mm. to Plate Mark.
British Museum.
![740px-johann_joachim_winckelmann_anton_von_maron_1768](https://enfilade18thc.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/740px-johann_joachim_winckelmann_anton_von_maron_1768.jpeg?w=350&h=484)
Bust of Homer in the portrait of Johann JoachimWinckelmann
by von Marron
136 x 99 cms.
1768
Stadtschloss
Weimar
Not really relevant but included toas an example of the popularity of this bust in the 18th Century
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