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Page of a sketchbook: Ulysses passes the Sirens (recto); Ulysses in the Underworld (verso)
Stradanusca. 1590
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Verso: A figure stands aboard a ship, at left. Near the shore, in right foreground, a group of mermaids. Mountains in distance. Recto: Horizontal rectangle. A group of spirits kneel and stand, left, before a man in full armor, who walks toward them.
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- Title: Page of a sketchbook: Ulysses passes the Sirens (recto); Ulysses in the Underworld (verso)
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
- Date Created: ca. 1590
- Location Created: Netherlands
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Brown ink on paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
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