Lot 847
  • 847

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.