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Museum number: 1846,0425.15
Title: Object: Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution; Series: Society of Arts
Description: Groups of the virtuous in Elysium, guarded by the Archangel Michael and other archangels, one holding a balance, at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea of Tartarus full of lost souls to right; artist's unlettered proof, outline etching with minimal shading. 1792 Etching
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Production date: 1792
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Dimensions: Height: 422 millimetres; Width: 920 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For a related drawing, see 1874,0411.69. See 1849,1031.241. The virtuous figures depicted include the following, looking l to r. bottom row at l; Thales, Descartes, Archimedes, Roger Bacon, Columbus, Epaminondas, Socrates, Lucius Junius Brutus, Cato, St Thomas More, Marcus Junius Brutus, William Molyneux, Boyle standing row at l; Francis Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, two angels, Shaftesbury, Locke, Zeno, Aristotle, Plato, Harvey, Hippocrates central group of legislators and patrons; Numa, Lycurgus, bearded man, Penn, Titus, Alfred, Antoninus, Trajan, Edward the Black Prince, and angel, Andrea Doria, Peter the Great, Henry IV, angel, Charles I, Colbert, Leo X, Francis I, Lord Arundel, Louis XIV, unidentified man above angel with balance; Origen, Bishop Butler, Pascal above the philosphers at l; Brahma, Confucius, Mango Capac, Bishop Berkeley, Grotius, (standing) Juan de Mariana, Father Paul, Pope Adrian VI literary figures and artists above the legislators and patrons; Swift, Erasmus, Cervantes, Sterne, Pope, Mason and Gray (above Pope), Dryden, Addison, Richardson, Hogarth, (above the last two) Goldsmith, Thomson, Fielding, (other side of angel's head) Rubens, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Apelles (lower rank) Cosimo dei Medici, Poussin, the Sicyonian maid top row; Ben Jonson, a vestal, Terence, Moliere, Menander or a vestal, Racine and Corneille (above), Ossian, Alcaeus, Sappho and Horace (below), Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Virgil, Fenelon, Tasso, Ariosto, Dante, Petrarch, Laura.
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Archangel Michael; Representation of: Thales; Representation of: René Descartes; Representation of: Archimedes; Representation of: Roger Bacon; Representation of: Christopher Columbus; Representation of: Epaminondas; Representation of: Socrates; Representation of: Lucius Junius Brutus; Representation of: Cato the Younger; Representation of: Sir Thomas More; Representation of: Marcus Junius Brutus; Representation of: Robert Boyle; Representation of: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans; Representation of: Nicolaus Copernicus; Representation of: Galileo; Representation of: Sir Isaac Newton; Representation of: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; Representation of: John Locke; Representation of: Zeno of Elea; Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Plato; Representation of: Dr William Harvey; Representation of: Hippocrates; Representation of: Numa Pompilius; Representation of: Lycurgus of Sparta; Representation of: William Penn; Representation of: Titus; Representation of: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons; Representation of: Antoninus Pius; Representation of: Trajan; Representation of: Edward, the Black Prince; Representation of: Admiral Andrea Doria; Representation of: Peter I the Great, Tsar of Russia; Representation of: Henry IV, King of England; Representation of: Charles I, King of England; Representation of: Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Seignelay; Representation of: Pope Leo X; Representation of: François I, King of France; Representation of: Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; Representation of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre; Representation of: Origen; Representation of: Rt Rev Samuel Butler; Representation of: Blaise Pascal; Representation of: Confucius 孔夫子; Representation of: George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne; Representation of: Hugo de Groot; Representation of: Juan de Mariana; Representation of: Pope Adrian VI; Representation of: Jonathan Swift; Representation of: Desiderius Erasmus; Representation of: Miguel de Cervantes; Representation of: Laurence Sterne; Representation of: Alexander Pope; Representation of: William Mason; Representation of: Thomas Gray; Representation of: John Dryden; Representation of: Joseph Addison; Representation of: Jonathan Richardson Senior; Representation of: William Hogarth; Representation of: Oliver Goldsmith; Representation of: Henry Fielding; Representation of: Peter Paul Rubens; Representation of: Michelangelo; Representation of: Leonardo da Vinci; Representation of: Raphael; Representation of: Titian; Representation of: Antonio Correggio; Representation of: Apelles; Representation of: Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Representation of: Nicolas Poussin; Representation of: Ben Jonson; Representation of: Publius Terentius Afer; Representation of: Molière; Representation of: Menander; Representation of: Racine; Representation of: Pierre Corneille; Representation of: James Macpherson; Representation of: Alcaeus; Representation of: Sappho; Representation of: Horace; Representation of: Homer; Representation of: Virgil; Representation of: François Fénélon; Representation of: Torquato Tasso; Representation of: Lodovico Ariosto; Representation of: Dante; Representation of: Petrarch; Representation of: Laura de Noves; Associated with: Royal Society of Arts
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Acquisition date: 1846
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1846,0425.15
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