drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1993,0508.2.17
- Description
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Maenads singing Bacchanalian hymns, from Wodhull's translation of Euripides' 'The Bacchanalians', mounted in an album of 30 drawings by the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design; a group of Maenads playing music before a term, one dancing with a satyr, in the glade of a mountainous landscape. 24 Jan 1810
Graphite and pen and brown ink with brown wash and white bodycolour
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 305 millimetres
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Width: 387 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The passage from Wodhull's translation of Euripides' "The Bacchanalians" , illustrated by the fourth group of drawings in the album, begins: "There was a valley, which on either side / Was bounded by a precipice," and ends "Sung to each other in alternate strains / Their Bacchanalian hymns."
For a description of the album and for further information about the Sketching Society, see the entry for 1993,0508.2.1.
From album 1993,0508.2.1-30
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Bacchanalians
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1993,0508.2.17
