drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1859,0709.80
- Description
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Scene from act II of "The Prophetess"; Diocles kneels before Amelia to plight himself to her, witnessed with indignation by Delphia and Drusilla from their chariot and a dragon above; surrounded by a decorated border.
Pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Production date
- 1777 (around)
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 millimetres
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Width: 141 millimetres (card)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved by J. Collyer, for vol. VI, p.103. From a collection of 28 drawings illustrating Colman's "Dramatick works of Beaumont and Fletcher" (BM 1859,0709.71 to 99).
For information on the collection, see the curatorial comment for 1859,0709.71
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1955 BM, [Theatre exhibition], no.19
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Dramatick works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1778)
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0709.80