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Pencil Drawing - The Three Statues of Aegina - Design for the Wood Engraving

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1906P912
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1861 - 1861

Maker Information

Artist:Frederick Sandys - View biography for Frederick Sandys

Notes

Design for an illustration, engraved by Joseph Swain, to accompany a poem by Walter Thornbury in Once a Week (26 October 1861, p. 491). The poem tells the tale of 'the god Pluto (Death) calling Chiron away from the scene of his acclaim for his statue of Minevra. He had not won approval for his earlier statues of pan and Venus, but all three sculptures will henceforward 'guard his tomb' (Betty Elzea, 'Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné,' p. 206).

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
Medium:Pencil on paper.
Material(s):Paper

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Dimensions

Height:147 mm
Width:102 mm