Author:John Flaxman

John Flaxman
(1755–1826)

John Flaxman

Works

• Lectures on sculpture, as delivered before the president and members of the Royal Academy (1865) [1]]

As Illustrator

• Latin and Italian poems of Milton translated into English verse, and a fragment of a commentary on Paradise Lost (1808), translated by William Cowper
• Compositions of the "Acts of mercy" (1831)
• Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists (1833)
• La Divine comédie (1843), by Dante Alighieri (French translation, in 3 vols.)
• Dante, translated into English verse (1859, 4th ed.), translated by Ichabod Charles Wright
• The Iliad of Homer (1873), translated by Alexander Pope
• Compositions of John Flaxman, Sculptor: Being Designs in Illustration of the Iliad of Homer (1882)
• The Story of the Iliad (1891) by Alfred John Church
• The Story of the Odyssey (1891) by Alfred John Church
• The Iliad of Homer (1898), translated by William Cullen Bryant
• The Vision Of Dante Alighieri (1910), translated by Henry Francis Cary

Contributor:

• Rees's Encyclopaedia

Works about Flaxman

• J T Smith, Nollekens and his times, 1829. Volume 2, Nollekens's Contemporaries. Flaxman p. 441-460
• Redgrave, Samuel (1878), "Flaxman, John" in A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: 154.
• "Flaxman, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• John Flaxman - 1755-1826 (1927), by William George Constable
• "Flaxman, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)