drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1993,0508.2.7
- Description
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Ceres at Arethusa's spring, a scene from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Book 5, line 861, mounted in an album of 30 drawings by the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design; Ceres shown half draped, with her left arm extended, seated on a bank by a pool with Arethusa rising from the water. 15 Nov 1809
Graphite, pen and black and brown ink with brown wash
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 373 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The transcribed passage from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" illustrated by the second group of drawings in the album begins "Ceres her daughter's rape no longer mourne'd" and continues for seven lines, ending "and thus to tell Alpheus' loves began."
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: Metamorphoses
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1993,0508.2.7
