print
- Museum number
- 1859,0709.680
- Title
- Object: The Forest as Enchanted, where Alcast General of Swiss is stopp'd by a firy Castle, defended by Daemons
- Description
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View of a dark thick forest, at right a soldier recoiling with terror at the sight of the fire breathing demons flying amongst flames in a gap between the trees, part of a fortress visible, serpents wrapped around the trunks of the trees behind him, another in the undergrowth at left; after John Collins, plate 4 of a set of 6 illustrating Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered'. 1763?
Etching
- Production date
- 1763
- Dimensions
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Height: 465 millimetres (lower edge trimmed)
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Width: 545 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of six stage designs for Tasso (see 1859,0709.677).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated)
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Acquisition notes
- 1859,0709.637 to 723 are the contents of the dispersed 'volume containing 95 prints' after various artists, deposited by Evans on 21 April 1859. It was registered as a volume of 'prints published by John Boydell', which implies that they are all Boydell reprints of earlier plates.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0709.680
