Dido queen of Carthage consults her sister Anna about her love for Aeneas: Anna advises her to marry him. Etching by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
- Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658.
- Date:
- [1654]
- Reference:
- 2917944i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Virgil, Aeneid book IV. Dido was the legendary daughter of a king of Tyre. Her husband was murdered by her brother Pygmalion, subsequently King of Tyre, and Dido escaped to Libya, where she founded Carthage. The shipwrecked Aeneas is brought to Dido by Venus, and Dido falls in love with him. She asks her sister Anna for advice. The setting is the queen's bedroom in a marble palace. On the right is a richly adorned bed, with the queen's regalia and toilet table. In the left background, the mountainous African landscape
Publication/Creation
[London] : [Thomas Warren for John Ogilby], [1654]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 25.5 x 19.3 cm
Lettering
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae ... F. Cleyn in.r PLombart: sculpsit Londini
References note
A. Griffiths, The print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, London 1998, pp. 186-187 (on Ogilby's Vergil)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2917944i
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Location Status Access Closed stores