Two women at a wash-basin; to the right is a man with the attributes of an initiate of Dionysus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.

Date:
1937
Reference:
34486i
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One woman is washing her hair and the other is washing her genitals

Publication/Creation

1937

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1 painting : gouache, on watercolour board ; image 29.6 x 35.1 cm

Lettering

Greek women at toilet. Two women are washing themselves in the presence of a satyr; from a painted vase now lost. Reproduced from: Seconde collection de M. Hamilton (tome IV, planche 29).

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34486i

Reproduction note

Reproduced from "seconde collection de M. Hamilton (tome IV, planche 29)", i.e. prints of antiquities belonging to Sir William Hamilton

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