drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1993,0508.2.4
- Description
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Thyrsis seated on a bank, a scene from Milton's 'Comus', mounted in an album of 30 drawings by the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design; the shepherd is seated on a rock on the banks of a stream which winds into a mountainous landscape in the distance, with his flock further along the stream. 4 Oct 1809
Graphite, pen and brown ink with brown wash
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 320 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The transcribed passage from Milton's "Comus" illustrated by the first group of drawings in the album begins "This evening late, by then the chewing flocks" and continues for nine lines, ending "And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance;".
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: Comus
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1993,0508.2.4