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Telemachus and Mentor in a Galley after Fleeing the Island of Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 8
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus Relates His Adventures to the Goddess Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 1
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus, Believing that His Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

The Dream of Telemachus, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 4
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus is Consoled by Termosiris, Priest of Apollo, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Calypso Watches Telemachus with Cupid on His Knee, While Mentor Watches in Anger, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus Describes How He Was Admitted into the Assembly in Crete, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 5
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Study for Events of the Life of Massaroni, an Italian Bandit
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Venus Presents Cupid to Calypso, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus Plays and Sings to the Shepherds in Egypt, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Telemachus Battles the Lion, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Mentor and Telemachus, Having Survived the Storm, Are Spirited to the Island of Calypso on a Mast, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 6
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Cupid Advises Calypso to Set Fire to Mentor’s Ship, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 7
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Brigand Chief Held Back By a Woman (recto); Sketch fo Two Figures in a Landscape (verso)
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

The Stagecoach Holdup
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Study for Meo Patacca
Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Paolo and Francesca
Attributed to Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Italian Peasants Resting
Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italian, 1781–1835)

Woman in Native Costume with Boy on Road
After Bartolomeo Pinelli Italian, 1781-1835

Le Romain (The Roman) (Furnishing Fabric)
Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811) after etchings by Bartolomeo Pinelli (French, 1781–1835) Engraved by Jules Mallet (French, 1759–1835) France, Jouy-en-Josas