An extract from the original manuscript of Pope's translation of Homer mb-code IX004306 Interior of the Auction Mart

Interior of the Auction Mart in Bartholomew Lane

completed in 1869

Dramatic scene set in Ancient Egypt showing Israelite slaves pulling a giant statue of a lion during the construction of the cities of Phithom and Rameses

June 1978 78-3052-014

An extract from the original manuscript of Pope's translation of Homer mb-code IX004306 Interior of the Auction MartAn extract from the original manuscript of Pope's translation of Homer, 18th century, (1840). The extract contains the parting of Hector and Andromache. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).