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R*** Heubach 19th Century
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Description
- R*** Heubach
- Portrait of the Greek Poet Erinna
- signed R. Heubach (lower right)
- charcoal heightened with white
- sheet 21 1/2 by 15 1/4 in.
- 54.6 by 38.7 cm.
Catalogue Note
By some traditions, Erinna was said to have been a contemporary of Sappho in the sixth century B.C., others maintain she lived two centuries later. Fragments of her poems have survived to the present day.