Artist: Heywood Hardy (English, 1843-1933)
Title: Ulysses Ploughing the Seashore
Medium: Antique Steel Engraving on wove paper after the original by Master Engraver Charles Cousen (British, 1819 – 1889) .
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image Size 6 x 10 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Ulysses standing in a beach in profile to the right, holding the reins of two horses which pulls the plough to the right, child Telemachus lying on a tiger’s skin on the right and sleeping, two other figures standing in the left background.
Heywood Hardy was an English painter and etcher of animals, Portraits, genre and sporting subjects. He was born in Chichester. He is the son of artist James Hardy, Snr (1801-1879) and the younger brother of James Hardy Jnr (1832-1889)