The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Ulysses and the Sirens
The sirens board the ship — bound to the mast, he cannot resist.
- Work
- Herbert James Draper, Ulysses and the Sirens
- Artist / creator
- Herbert James Draper (British, 1863–1920)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1909
- Held by
- Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Warned that the Sirens’ song would lure his ship to the rocks, Ulysses had himself lashed to the mast and his crew’s ears stopped with wax, so he alone could hear it and live. Draper makes the temptation vivid: rather than distant rocks, three sirens climb aboard the ship itself — the first still a fish-tailed sea-creature, the next two transforming into beautiful women as they come — while the bound hero strains toward them and the deaf oarsmen row grimly on. It is the whole meaning of the myth in one image: desire made physical and inescapable, and the will holding just barely against it. Edwardian classicism at its most dramatic.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Ferens Art Gallery, Hull’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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